**½/****starring Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda Tapsellwritten by Thomas Martindirected by Lorcan Finnegan by Walter Chaw A time or two during Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer, I wondered if it wasn’t at least a spiritual cousin to Frank Perry’s The Swimmer, seeing as how both films offer an overarching metaphor of going home while examining an aimless, tortured masculinity on the existential skids. Indeed, there’s a literary quality to The Surfer that smells like the ...
