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Surfer, Dude is a 2008 American comedy film directed by S.R. Bindler and starring Matthew McConaughey.
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Directed by | S.R. Bindler |
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Produced by | Gus Gustawes Mark Gustawes Matthew McConaughey |
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Cinematography | Elliot Davis |
Edited by | Nancy Richardson |
Music by | Blake Neely |
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Distributed by | Anchor Bay Entertainment (US) Odeon (Greece) |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $6 million |
Box office | $52,132 |
Woody Harrelson claims the film is the most "non-work" he has ever done.[1] McConaughey and Harrelson, who previously appeared together in EDtv, later co-starred in HBO's True Detective.
Surfer, Dude is the story of Steve Addington, a soul-searching surfer who experiences an existential crisis when no waves come for over a month. While the waves are not arriving, producers are trying to get him to join a reality show. He refuses joining the show because his main focus is surfing and he keeps searching for the waves along the coast of California. The waves end up coming back a month later.
The film was critically panned upon release.
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with 18 reviews, the film has a approval rating of 0%. At Metacritic the film has an average score of 16 out of 100 based on reviews from 6 critics.[2]
Michael Ordona of the Los Angeles Times stated that "The film is awash in doobies and breasts, clichéd cinematic language and clumsy exposition. It's reminiscent of the stoner-culture movies of the late '60s and early '70s but without the naive fun."[3] Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter dismissed it as "[A] lackluster vanity production."[4]
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