Alexie Gilmore, Cassandra Hepburn, Jeffrey Nordling

Longboarding soul-surfer Steve Addington returns to Malibu for the summer to find his cool hometown vibe corrupted. New sponsorship demands Addington to expand into Virtual Reality Video Games and Rea...( read more  read more... )lity TV. Unwilling to participate in this new digital-reality, he chooses to spend his summer surfing his home break. But in a twist-of-fate, the waves go flat and stay flat. Out of money, his expense-accounts canceled, and betrayed by his buddies, Addington is backed into a harsh corner. He must endure the insanity that comes with no waves or give into "the Man" and his new, reality-altering machines. Aided by his manager, his mentor, his guardian-angel and his summer lover, Addington has a chance of keeping his cool, but it's not going to be easy. The dude needs a wave, and there's never been a drought like this.

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R, 1 hr. 28 min.

Directed by: S.R. Bindler

Release Date: September 5, 2008

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DVD Release Date: December 30, 2008

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  • April 2, 2009
    "Love and waves, that's what we need in these dark days."



    Surfer, Dude evokes a soft '70s feel and vibe even though it was filmed digitally with the latest technology and incorporates a reality TV and video game plot. It took seven years to get made, and he's using a lot o...( read more)f people he's known since his early twenties, and boy does it show that he's simply hanging out with friends getting stoned, naked, and making a movie on the beach. Woody Harrelson, Scott Glenn, and Willlie Nelson show up mainly to smoke bud on and off camera while improvising their lines. It all proves being Matthew McConaughey isn't all that hard, but making a good movie with him producing is going to be a challenge. He's so out of touch with anything other than a California dream that hasn't been in style for nearly 30 years, and the film feels like it is out of step with today's reality.
  • January 4, 2009
    Surfer Dude with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson has some funny scenes but overall not worth seeing. A movie that even at the 90 min run time seemed a bit dragged out.
  • October 26, 2008
    An exceedingly mellow mid-life crisis comedy, brah.
  • October 25, 2009
    I watched this high and still just didnt love it that much.
  • October 8, 2009
    not the best movie, but entertaining... surfers are cool
  • September 29, 2009
    STUPID STUPID STUPID.
  • August 18, 2009
    Ako je ovo komedija.. hehehe, nece ici.. Spasava ga jedino Matt, a ostalo nista. Bolje ne pogledati jer se ne dobije nikakva prica, gluma ni nista.
  • August 10, 2009
    Does exactly what it says on the tin....Surfer/stoner film without much of a story but still very very funny
  • August 5, 2009
    in this movie mattew is just a crazy drunk kid !
    theres nothing in this one exept naked girls & crazy surfers
  • August 1, 2009
    From viewing the trailer for the film, I had a feeling that I wasn't gonna like the film and after seeing the film, I was right. McConaughey has to stop playing these kinds of roles. He comes off as a really bad impersonation of Patrick Swayze's character from Point Break. Both h...( read more)im and Woody Harrellson were much better in Ed TV than this film. The only positive thing about this film, is Jeffrey Nordling, who does a good job, given what he has to work with, and makes this film watchable.

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