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The Surface (2015)

6.2 | Jun 27, 2015 (US) | Drama | 01:19

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.

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Harry Hains
Evan Jones
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Nicholas McDonald
Chris Stentz
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Michael Redford
Peter Berg
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Kyle Patrick Darling
Justin Fishman
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Jinny Chung
Amy Chen
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Robert E. Weiner
Harry Berg
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Iva Turner
Yard Sale Shopper
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Koji Niiya
John the Bartender
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Ari David
A.J. Party Guy

Reviews

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CinemaSerf
6 | Mar 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.