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The Surface (2015)

Jun 27, 2015 Drama 1h 19m
62%
User Score
5.6/10

Overview

Evan, an orphaned 22-year-old who grew up in the foster care system, buys a vintage 8mm camera in a yard sale from an elderly man, ends up with reels of the man's old home movies, and begins to live vicariously through these home movies.

Michael J. Saul
Director

Top Billed Cast

Harry Hains
Harry Hains

Evan Jones
Nicholas McDonald
Nicholas McDonald

Chris Stentz
Michael Redford
Michael Redford

Peter Berg
Kyle Patrick Darling
Kyle Patrick Darling

Justin Fishman
Samantha Bowling
Samantha Bowling

Michelle
Jinny Chung
Jinny Chung

Amy Chen
Robert E. Weiner
Robert E. Weiner

Harry Berg
Iva Turner
Iva Turner

Yard Sale Shopper
Koji Niiya
Koji Niiya

John the Bartender

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Media

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Reviews

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on March 27, 2022

arry Hains' portrayal of "Evan", an orphaned 22 year old is quite sensitive in this melodrama about a lad searching for a sense of identity and for family. He buys an old movie camera and some films and sets about restoring them to discover they are about the family of the man he bought it from. This triggers in him a need for a sort of emotional freedom so he splits from his long term boyfriend and takes up with the son of the man who sold him the camera. It's a good looking, if hardly ground breaking, film that tries to deal with self-appreciation and longing; and it makes a decent fist of it....

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