The trailer to Soul Surfer, the new movie about the life of , is making its way around the web. Hamilton lost her arm at the age of 13 in a tiger shark attack off the island of Kauai while surfing with her friend Alana Blanchard. She returned to surfing just a few months later to pursue her dream of becoming a pro.
So far, the buzz around the movie has centered around the inclusion of Christianity. broke a story that the words Holy Bible were edited off of the cover of a book when the movie was shown during a screening. They were put back in after the family objected.
“I could see the words bright and clear. I looked at my wife and whispered, ‘Thank you God, they put it back,” Tom Hamilton told .
–Joe Spring