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THE SURFER
Synopsis
With the hope of buying back the seafront house that once belonged to his father, an office worker returns to his hometown in Australia—but local surfers have claimed the secluded beach of his childhood. When they humiliate him before his teenage son, the turf war of Luna Bay escalates.
Synopsis
With the hope of buying back the seafront house that once belonged to his father, an office worker returns to his hometown in Australia—but local surfers have claimed the secluded beach of his childhood. When they humiliate him before his teenage son, the turf war of Luna Bay escalates.
Our take
Nicolas Cage brings his full-volume, charged antics to this scorchingly fun B-movie, riding far-out waves of midlife crisis and wounded masculinity. Under the flummoxing blaze of the sun, low-budget, beach-bum thrills see red and turn psychedelic, catching fire on the star’s raging performance.