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Bodysurfer

1989 · 1 season

A quiet, introspective Australian drama that unfolds slowly, asking you to sit with a man's mid-life reckoning and family fractures.

Created by
Ian Barry
Genres
Drama
Overview
Bodysurfer charts the odyssey of David Lang. Searching beyond mid-life crisis, David finds unanswered questions of his childhood can lead him toward a state of maturity. He realises it is his last hope for reconstructing his fractured family
How it feels
Melancholic, earnest and warm. Slow-burning and demanding.
About
Family, identity, memory, aging
Content
Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
Note
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Created by
Ian Barry
Genres
Drama
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Ian Barry
Written by
Christopher Lee, Suzanne Hawley
Starring
Toni Moran, Edwina Cox, Rangi Nikora, Ruth Caro, Ewa Bok, Mariya Coblenz, Gareth Thomas, Alex Galeazzi
Length
1 seasons, 2 episodes, 100 min each
Network
ABC TV
Country
Australia

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