Christopher Pate

The arrival of an unhinged preacher upends the idyllic life of a high school senior who trades his rural roots for the city as he faces the war draft.

Four surfers plan a tribute "surfari" to a small beach town three decades after one of their fathers was murdered. But some road trips are to die for.

Sent to an Australian beach to pose as a lifeguard, a young man falls for the daughter of the landowner his developer dad intends to displace.