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Off Shore

Country: Germany, Language: German, 89 mins

Gay | Drama | 2011

Director: Sven J. Matten
Writer: Viola Siegemund; Sven J. Matten
Producer: Anett Gruenbeck; Sven J. Matten

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The central character is afraid of water...so, naturally, he enrols on a surfing course.

A truly ridiculous premise...with the added bonus, he can't act! At all! By all.

The film is loaded with some of the worst songs you ever likely to hear...obviously, when the director encountered doubt...he threw in some vicious songs accompanied by some savage visuals.

The writing is juvenile...with a story that limps through vacuous conversations and mind-numbing melodrama...the scene where the two 'sons' discuss their errant fathers is...well, words fail.

And, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...it does. The deterioration is the film's only consistency.

It's a horror.

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The(ir) Blurb...

Andi has come to Fuerteventura to see his estranged father Chris, who left the family years ago to live on the island and hasn't been heard from since. The local surfer clique welcomes Andi with open arms and he quickly falls for surfing instructor Tina, forming at the same time a reluctant friendship with a mysterious surfer. But his relationship to his father, whom Andi has never met before, is strained. Soon old wounds start to rip open again and a long-kept family secret threatens to turn Andi's world upside down.