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Beautiful Wave is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 8 may 2012 with Aimee Teegarden

Beautiful Wave (2012)

Beautiful Wave
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Released in USA 8 may 2012
Length 1h40
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating50% 2.513412.513412.513412.513412.51341

Beautiful Wave is a 2011 coming-of-age surf themed road trip movie. The screenplay was written by Lynn Salt & David Mueller, and John Harris. It was directed by David Mueller.

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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.

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