The Surfer

THE SURFER, R 1hr 43min.  In the psychological thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan, a man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. But his desire to hit the waves is thwarted by a group of locals whose mantra is "don't live here, don't surf here." Humiliated and angry, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising in concert with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him to his breaking point. 

Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times - "It’s a film in which the mythic crashes into the ridiculous, the intersection where its star Nicolas Cage has also staked his career."

G. Allen Johnson - San Francisco Chronicle - "As the Surfer becomes increasingly desperate in the contest of wills, he becomes unhinged, and in cinema, an unhinged Nic Cage is the best Nic Cage."