The Surface
Jun 27, 2015 | IMDB 5.8
79 min Watch NowDrama
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.
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