Beautiful Wave (2012)
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Directors
David Mueller
Cast
Aimee Teegarden, Patricia Richardson, Ben Milliken, Alicia Ziegler
The story
New Yorker late-teen Nicole (Aimee Teegarden) visits her estranged grandmother (Patricia Richardson) in Santa Cruz, California for the summer. She learns family history, meets a boy, takes a road trip to Mexico, learns to surf, and discovers her missing-or-presumed-dead grandfather.
Genres
Adventure, Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film
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