The Surface

The Surface

27/6/2015 1h 19m 5.8/10

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.

Director

Michael J. Saul

Top Billed Cast

Jinny Chung

Jinny Chung

Amy Chen

Harry Hains

Harry Hains

Evan Jones

Kyle Patrick Darling

Justin Fishman

Samantha Bowling

Michelle

Michael Redford

Peter Berg

Nicholas McDonald

Chris Stentz

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

3/27/2022

6/10

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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