Scotty James met his billionaire-heiress wife shortly after a chance encounter with her brother in a bathroom. He lives in Monaco and has spent his life jet-setting across the world piling up fame and fortune.

Yet any inkling that everything Australia’s best snowboarder touches turns to gold is dismissed mere seconds into his new autobiographical documentary “Scotty James: Pipe Dream.”

There’s “an elephant in the room,” James says – a still-missing Olympic gold medal – and if he doesn’t get it this winter at the games in Italy, well, life will still be fine but “is it ever going to happen? And I feel that pressure every day.”

“Pipe Dream,” which comes out Dec. 19 on Netflix, uses decades’ worth of home and handheld footage to take us on the heartfelt road James traveled to become one of

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