Soul Surfer

In 2003, teenager Bethany Hamilton  lives in Kauai, Hawaii with her parents Tom and Cheri , and two brothers, Noah  and Timmy . All are surfers, but she and her best friend Alana Blanchard have grown up with a passion for the sport and enter a competition. Her church youth ministry leader, Sarah Hill , is disappointed when she has to withdraw from a planned missions trip because of the contest.

Bethany and Alana place first and third, respectively, while the second place winner, Malina Birch , proves to be resentful. Bethany invites both girls up on the winner's box with her, but Malina ungraciously refuses. The Rip Curl surfwear company offers to sponsor her and Alana in competition.

The night before Halloween, Alana and Bethany sneak off with some friends to go surfing. Later while Tom goes to the hospital for knee surgery, both girls go surfing with Alana's father Holt  and brother Byron . At 21 minutes in as Bethany dangles her left arm in the water, a tiger shark appears out of nowhere and sinks its teeth into it, biting it off near the shoulder. Holt gets Bethany out of the water and puts atourniquet on her while Byron calls 911. An ambulance meets them on the way to the hospital. Just before starting Tom's knee surgery, Dr. David Rovinsky  is called to the emergency room to treat Bethany. She has lost her left arm, along with 60% of her blood and he calls her survival a miracle.
Comparing it with her real life in the movie she goes swiming the night before haloween with her best friend alana and her father but in her real life she goes in the haloween morning at 7:00 am.I think that her accident is a way to show people how you can have accidents in things but if you have faith and compromise you can still do things many things in life.

Bethany's injury disqualifies her from the Rip Curl photo shoots, but she wishes Alana well. Rip Curl is supportive of her as its executive  providing a prosthetic arm that is cosmetically perfect and has bendable joints. Bethany angrily rejects it when she learns it will not help her surf. The onslaught of paparazzi also proves to be a great strain on her family and their privacy. The family, however, bears no ill will towards the Blanchards for taking her out to the place where she was attacked, and Cheri even tells Holt that she is grateful he was there, for his quick thinking and decisive action saved her life.

Bethany perseveres and, after a recuperation period, gets back in the water and learns to surf with one arm, eventually re-entering the competition. She tells her rival Malina not to take it easy on her, and rejects a five-minute head start offered by the judges. She does not perform well because she cannot stay on the board long enough to go out and catch a competitive wave, and Malina wins. Disheartened, she decides to give up competitive surfing.

She sees the effects of the 2004 tsunami on television, which places her own problems in perspective. She decides to surprise Sarah by joining the youth group on another mission trip to help the devastated people of Phuket, Thailand. They are understandably afraid of the water, including a little boy. Bethany decides to go into it with a surfboard, hoping this will coax him into it. It works, and the realization that she can use her gift to inspire people motivates her to take up surfing again.

Tom rigs a handle on her surfboard which she can use to prevent falling off while paddling out to the waves, which is not prohibited by the competition's rules. He also voices the belief that she possesses a great surfer's instinct for sensing when the best waves will form. She enters the national championship, thanks Malina for treating her as a serious competitor, and performs respectably, though she is still chasing third place. Suddenly, with only minutes left on the clock, the waves die down and all the surfers can only loiter, waiting for them to start back up. Tom's belief in his daughter's instinct is proven when she is the only one to sense a big wave forming, and she alone paddles out. When it forms, the others cannot get out in time and she catches it just as the horn sounds. If it is in time, she will win, but the judges rule that the time has expired. Malina is the winner, but she has finally gotten over her differences with her, inviting her up on the platform to share first place.

Subsequently, Bethany lets the reporters interview her. One asks her what she would do if given the chance to undo the loss of her arm. She says that she would still lose it because she can embrace more people now than she ever could with both. The film ends with real video of Bethany surfing after the attack. Also showing video of interviews and special appearances that she has made.

I think this movie is a very good comparison with her life because besides that it shows that she supposed to have faith on her self to do things it also shows that god is very beautiful and he can make any miracle possible hes there with you wherever whenever and however you need him hell be there by your side to listen to you and to help you and to listen to you in your neeed this movie shows people that no matter what you have to believe because you have capacity to do things because if a miracle left armless girl can do that in such a good way it means you can do it also and maybe as twice as beter this movie its like an example for people to realize where lidfe can take you because no matter what you can do things things are possible in life i really recoment this movie  even if your religiously a christian or not this movie shows the greatness of the world.

Movie cast:

• AnnaSophia Robb as Bethany Hamilton
• Helen Hunt as Cheri Hamilton
• Dennis Quaid as Tom Hamilton
• Carrie Underwood as Sarah Hill
• Kevin Sorbo as Holt Blanchard
• Ross Thomas as Noah Hamilton
• Chris Brochu as Timmy Hamilton
• Lorraine Nicholson as Alana Blanchard
• Jeremy Sumpter as Byron Blanchard
• Sonia Balmores Chung as Malina Birch
• Craig T. Nelson as Dr. Rovinsky
• Cody Gomes as Keoki
• Branscombe Richmond as Ben
• Arlene Newman-Van Asperen as Cydney Blanchard
• Nadeen Ayman as Jenny

Here is her biography the comparison  of the movie with what actually happened and with pictures

Bethany Hamilton:

Bethany Meilani Hamilton (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional surfer. She is known for surviving a shark attack in which she lost her left arm, and for overcoming the injury to ultimately return to professional surfing. She wrote about her experience in the 2004 autobiography Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board. In April 2011, the feature film Soul Surfer was released, based on the book and additional interviews. Hamilton has appeared on several shows since the loss of her arm. Hamilton is also a Christian.

On October 31, 2003, at the age of 13 , Hamilton went for a morning surf along Tunnels Beach, Kauai with best friend Alana Blanchard and Alana's father and brother. Around 7:30 a.m., with numerous turtles in the area, she was lying on her surfboard with her left arm dangling in the water, when a 14–15 foot long tiger shark attacked her ripping her left arm off just below the shoulder. The Blanchards helped paddle her back to shore, then Alana's father fashioned a tourniquet out of a surfboard leash and wrapped it around the stump of her arm, before rushing her toWilcox Memorial Hospital. By the time she had gotten there she had lost over 60% of her blood. Her father was supposed to have knee surgery that morning, but she took his place in the operating room. She then spent seven more days in recovery at the hospital.

Despite the trauma of the incident, Hamilton was determined to return to surfing and did get back into the water. Less than one month after the incident, she returned to her board and went surfing again. Initially, she adopted a custom-made board that was longer and slightly thicker, making it easier to paddle. She has observed that she has to kick a lot more to make up for the loss of her left arm. After teaching herself to surf with one arm, on January 10, she entered a major competition. She is now back to using competitive performance short-boards.

In July 2004, Hamilton won the Best Comeback Athlete ESPY Award.^[3] She was also presented with a special "courage award" at the 2004 Teen Choice Awards.