IMDb plot summary: A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising and pushes him to his breaking point.
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Stars Nicolas Cage, Finn Little, and Rahel Romahn.
The Surfer stars Nicolas Cage as a divorced man who has his heart set on buying his Australian childhood beach home, only to run up against multiple problems, primarily a territorial beach gang. What a weird strange movie this is. I truly never knew where it was going. The film it reminded me most of was The Swimmer, another surreal water-based story of someone just trying to get home, and this similarly starts taking on a larger-than-life almost Greek tragedy-style horror -- all in a very enjoyable way. I truly never knew where this was ever going to go. Like many Cage movies, I can't quite tell if this is a *good* movie or not. But it's definitely an interesting one.
How it entered my Flickchart:
🎥 The Surfer (2025)
📊 Ranked #1086/4165 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 74
beat Phantom Thread (#2080 → #2081)
lost to 20th Century Women (held at #1039)
beat Laurence Anyways (#1559 → #1560)
beat Guys and Dolls (#1299 → #1300)
beat The Color Purple (#1169 → #1170)
beat Brave (#1104 → #1105)
lost to Chronicle (held at #1071)
beat The Palm Beach Story (#1087 → #1088)
lost to H.M.S. Defiant (held at #1079)
lost to Barbie (held at #1083)
lost to Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (held at #1085)
beat The Nice Guys (#1086 → #1087)
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