Surfer, Dude

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Surfer, Dude

R

2008

1h 25m

Comedy

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Steve Addington (Matthew McConaughey) is a professional surfer and beach bum who lives to ride the waves. Content simply to live in the moment, he has a dilemma when his finances dry up and businessman Eddie Zarno (Jeffrey Nordling) offers to hire him for a virtual reality game. Since there are suddenly no good waves in the ocean, Addington must reconsider Zarno's offer and ponder his place in the world. Struggling with the choice, Addington seeks advice from his friends.

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

[A] hapless, laughless movie.

Sep 15, 2008

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Tim Cogshell

Boxoffice Magazine

The movie is about a surfer dude (sans comma), who is an analog dude trying to fit into a digital world, which is like trying to get a square peg into a Calabi-Yau Manifold, which is to say it probably won't work, and neither does this movie.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 15, 2008

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Neely Tucker

Washington Post

You can stick around for the only funny line, which involves a breakfast burrito, but the smart surfer would head for the hills and Willie's goat ranch.

Sep 12, 2008

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Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

The problem that Surfer, Dude faces is that in its attempt to be a stoner comedy, it forgot to add the comedy elements.

Rated: 1.5/5

Mar 5, 2009

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

A celebration of unrealistic lifestyles, which makes it exactly the wrong film for our times. [Blu-ray]

Rated: 1.5/4

Dec 28, 2008

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Ben Lyons

At the Movies

The film looks more like a collection of home movies as opposed to a professional piece of cinema.

Nov 5, 2008

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John R

Righteous swells and the harshness when they’re gone. You get it…or you don’t.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/19/25

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CJ C

0% from all the critics. My favorite movie of all time. 🤣🤔

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/15/25

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Fionn L

A cinematic masterpiece would be an extreme understatement. McConaughey is a perfect casting in this Oscar worthy performance. Bindler really brings the story to life. #lovedit #perfectmovie

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/11/25

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warren j

Very accurate in it’s depiction of Surfer Dude ethos on the West Coast, Great to look at and before it’s time in pointing out the destructive elements of modern mainstream reality TV culture. Enjoyable, feel good and great performances all round. This films reputation will grow in time, Cool!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/04/24

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t n

Matthew McConaughey obviously produced this so that he could spend an hour or two without a shirt on trying to look sexy. Choosing Woody Harrelson to be in the movie was obviously an attempt to make himself look even better and he must have homophobic Tendencies towards Woody because they enjoy having conversations with their face 2 inches apart from each other. So no Matthew you're not all that and next time you want to make a movie try and produce something with actual content honestly this movie reminds me of some ugly guy standing in front of a mirror for 3 hours pretending to be sexy a big pass on this movie this movie is not just bad it is completely vile

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

09/24/22

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Audience Member

Is it bad, stoner-surfer genius, or avant-garde? I didn't hate it, but it really is borderline unwatchable. Having said that, you do get an awful lot of McConaughey for your money.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Synopsis

Steve Addington (Matthew McConaughey) is a professional surfer and beach bum who lives to ride the waves. Content simply to live in the moment, he has a dilemma when his finances dry up and businessman Eddie Zarno (Jeffrey Nordling) offers to hire him for a virtual reality game. Since there are suddenly no good waves in the ocean, Addington must reconsider Zarno's offer and ponder his place in the world. Struggling with the choice, Addington seeks advice from his friends.

Director: S.R. Bindler
Producer: Gus Gustawes, Mark Gustawes
Screenwriter: S.R. Bindler, Cory Van Dyke
Distributor: Anchor Bay
Production Co: J.K. Livin Productions
Rating: R (Pervasive Drug Use|Nudity|Language)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 12, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 1, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $36.5K
Runtime: 1h 25m

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