The Surfer
Don't live here, don't surf here.
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A psychological thriller about a man's descent into violence when nostalgia and paternal bonds collide with humiliation and local menace in a once-idyllic beach town.
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.
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