Waves

2019
R
2h 15m

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

33K

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Traces the journey of a suburban family - led by a well-intentioned but domineering father - as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.Traces the journey of a suburban family - led by a well-intentioned but domineering father - as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.Traces the journey of a suburban family - led by a well-intentioned but domineering father - as they navigate love, forgiveness, and coming together in the aftermath of a loss.

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

33K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,653

595

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 14 wins & 40 nominations

Videos10

'Waves' Trailer With Directors' Commentary

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Storyline

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Trivia
The script Trey Edward Shults sent to Sterling K. Brown was a PDF with embedded music cues, varying font sizes and colors, and notes about aspect ratio changes.

Goofs
When Ronald is with his daughter Emily by the lake fishing, there is a sound of a plane overhead and Emily looks up at the sky through a gap in the tree canopy's and there's a plane in the sky, the problem is it is moving too slowly in relation to its size suggesting it is closer to the ground and therefore should be seen to be moving a little quicker. They obviously used CGI but should have got a better handle on this perspective .

Quotes
Ronald: You have so much love to share with the world and so much life yet to live.

Connections
Featured in CTV News at 11:30 Toronto: Episode dated 10 September 2019 (2019)

Soundtracks
FloriDada
Written by Panda Bear (as Noah Lennox), Avey Tare (as David Portner), Geologist (as Brian Weitz)
Performed by Animal Collective
Published by Domino Publishing Company USA (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Domino Recording Company

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Featured review

6/10

Unnecessary scenes

The first half of this movie is good, but then it gets really long.

At the beginning the story is convincing and well told, but before reaching the end of the film, the story falls and does not tell many things about what we saw at the beginning, all those scenes that do not tell anything seem unnecessary. In the first part of the film the story develops very well, just as the characters develop in a complex way, the cinematography is very good, the photography is also very good, the performances are at a very committed and well structured level. I think that in the second half everything is ruined as it shifts the attention of the story towards another character and towards another situation, this change of course makes this last part very tedious and meaningless, except for some parts where the characters have a background.

It is not a bad movie, in fact the first part is very good, but the change of focus of the story ends up ruining the magnificent and wonderful experience that is lived in the first half, causing the film to fall completely apart.