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Forbes
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Acclaimed Nicolas Cage Thriller ‘The Surfer' Gets Streaming Date
Paritial poster for "The Surfer" featuring Nicholas Cage. The Surfer — a new psychological thriller starring Nicolas Cage — is coming soon to digital streaming. Rated R, The Surfer opened in theaters in limited release on May 2. The official summary for The Surfer reads, '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.' Cage plays the man, known only as 'The Surfer,' in the film, while his son is played by Finn Little. The Surfer also stars Julian McMahon as The Surfer's main antagonist, Scally. The Surfer is expected to be released on digital streaming via premium video on demand on Friday, June 6, according to When to Stream. While When to Stream is typically accurate with its PVOD reports, the streaming tracker noted that The Surfer's studio Roadside Attractions and distributor Lionsgate have not announced or confirmed the digital release date and it is subject to change. The Surfer is currently available for pre-order on Prime Video for $14.99, which will also be the film's purchase price. Typically, PVOD rental prices are $5 less than purchase prices, so viewers can expect to rent The Surfer for $9.99 for a 48-hour period when it becomes available. In addition to Prime Video, The Surfer will be available on such digital platforms as AppleTV, Fandango at Home and YouTube. The Surfer has thus far earned $1.020 million in North American theaters and more than $154,000 internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $1.174 million to date, per The Numbers. Information on the production budget or marketing spend on The Surfer has not yet been released. The Surfer earned an 86% 'fresh' rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics based on 131 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus reads, 'Nicolas Cage expertly rides the waves of toxic masculinity in this sand-filled arena of torment.' Audiences were not nearly as high on The Surfer on RT, giving the film a 46% 'rotten' score on the site's Popcornmeter based on 250-plus verified user ratings. The RT audience summary reads, 'While the story is too flat for most to ride, Nicolas Cage beguiles as The Surfer, and the iconic Australian backdrop makes for a stunning screensaver.' The Surfer is still playing in theaters and is expected to arrive on PVOD on June 6.
News.com.au
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Perfectly cast King of Weird Nicolas Cage loses the plot in Aussie thriller The Surfer
With a crazy homegrown surfing thriller, a quality biopic and a fun but forgettable fright-fest, there's something for everyone on the big screen this week. THE SURFER (MA15+) Director: Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium) Starring: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Finn Little ★★★ Cage becomes a wave-ing lunatic Take the 1970s Australian classic Wake in Fright and, while you're at it, grab the equally excellent 2017 adaptation of the Tim Winton novel Breath. Now upload the two of them to the AI platform of your choice, and instruct the program to generate a third movie from the pair. The end result should be something just like The Surfer: a disturbing psychodrama about a stranger in a strange land, in which the stranger is played by Nicolas Cage, and the strange land just happens to be the sunburnt country in which we all live. The casting of cinema's reigning King of Weird makes perfect sense in the particular case of The Surfer. It is difficult to think of anyone else but Cage coping with (and then fully meeting) the peculiar demands asked of him here. The movie opens on a single stretch of West Australian coastline that becomes a complete and combustively dangerous obsession for Cage's unnamed protagonist. All this bloke wants to do is take his teenage son (Finn Little) out into the water to ride some of the beautiful waves rolling into shore. However, the local surfers who spend every waking minute watching or wading into this spectacular swell do not take kindly to the presence of outsiders. In fact, the moment any foreign foot lands on their patch of sand, this unruly mob (on the instruction of a cult-leader-ish dude played by Julian McMahon) assume an attack formation that banishes any would-be rider straight back to the car park. Quite rightly and quite worryingly, Cage's character isn't having any of this. Despite copping a severe beating and the subsequent theft of his prize board, our hard-pressed hero refuses to let the matter rest. He sets up home in the aforementioned car park and devotes all of his attention to somehow catching that one wave he originally had in mind. Needless to say, as this is a Nicolas Cage movie, there's a high chance this fellow will lose his mind by the end. If all of this makes The Surfer sound like an acquired taste, be assured your reading of the situation is bang on the money. However, Cage's appropriately addled performance and some unconventional flourishes from Irish director Lorcan Finnegan guarantee The Surfer will get inside your head and stay there. The Surfer screens in special previews from this weekend (check local listings) and opens in full release next week. MONSIEUR AZNAVOUR (M) Selected cinemas Just as Frank Sinatra's unique combination of voice and attitude proved irresistible to the English-speaking world for several decades, those of a French persuasion never once fell out of love with Charles Aznavour. This classy biopic of the French crooning legend takes a safe, yet always interesting route through a long and winding career that eventually saw Aznavour sell over 200 million albums around the world. Of course, there are some sizeable hurdles that had to be cleared by Aznavour (played with great conviction by Tahar Rahim) before he made it to the big time, and the movie is at its strongest while its subject is still getting a foothold on the ladder to success. After countless rejections in his early days (many a theatrical agent thought his looks were too ethnic and his vocals sounded too nasal), a chance meeting with the legendary chanson singer Edith Piaf provided the break Aznavour had impatiently waited for. Once ol' Charlie gets to the top, we encounter a familiar formula we've seen countless times before, particularly in those biopics centring on single-minded artists who do anything to establish, exploit and extend their time in the spotlight. However, the music sequences (sung live by Rahim) pay their way handsomely throughout, to the extent you'll probably stream yourself a repeat listen afterwards. CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD (MA15+) ★★★ This ultra-disposable horror-comedy hybrid has one thing going for it: energy. This ain't the kind of horror movie to sit on its hands for minutes at a time while we wait for another wave of dread to build, crash and then subside. No, once Clown in a Cornfield gets on its ridiculous roll, there's just no stopping the thing. While it falls short of the high ha-ha levels set by that recent cheeky chiller The Monkey, there's still enough well-crafted laughs and genuinely grotesque shocks to the senses to justify attendance for those so inclined. The villain to be loathed, feared and secretly cheered here is Frendo the Clown, the former mascot for a corn syrup factory that had to be shut down in controversial circumstances. The teen buddies who have Frendo reaching for the nearest crossbow, pitchfork or chainsaw are partially responsible for the closure, which has not made them very popular in their small Missouri hometown. However, once their numbers start diminishing in kinetically gruesome ways, the threat posed by the icky sicko that is Frendo rises exponentially to all in this rural hamlet. Fun while it lasts, though forgettable once you're home.
