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15/11/2019 Romance, Drama 2h 16m
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Love is patient.

Overview

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

  1. Trey Edward Shults

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Kelvin Harrison Jr.

    Tyler

  2. Taylor Russell

    Emily

  3. Renée Elise Goldsberry

    Catharine

  4. Sterling K. Brown

    Ronald

  5. Lucas Hedges

    Luke

  6. Alexa Demie

    Alexis

  7. Neal Huff

    Bill

  8. Clifton Collins Jr.

    Bobby

  9. Krisha Fairchild

    English Teacher

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Reviews

A review by SWITCH.
Written by SWITCH. on 2020-07-22
'Waves', while certainly ambitious, is so busy trying to be a future indie classic with its camera acrobatics and needle drops that it forgets to give any impetus to care about the supposedly profound stories it's trying to tell, instead coasting on its stylistic flairs and hoping these will distract from how shallow its writing is, making the 135-minute run time incredibly laborious. By his own admission, Shults modelled his film on the two-part structure of Frank Ocean's 'Blonde', an album which is featured prominently in the film. What audiences get instead is the cinematic equivalent of pu...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$6,000,000.00

Revenue
$2,576,990.00

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