The new Nicolas Cage movie The Surfer, which opens in theaters this weekend, stars Nicolas Cage as a surfer. Bet you didn’t see that one coming! Directed by Lorcan Finnegan, with a screenplay written by Thomas Martin, The Surfer is a psychological thriller about an unnamed surf enthusiast (Cage) who returns to his favorite childhood beach to catch a wave with his son. But his idea for a sweet father-son outing is derailed by a group of angry locals who insist the beach should only be open to residents from the area. Under the heat of the pounding sun, the conflict escalates quickly. Also starring Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda Tapsell, Alexander Bertrand, and Justin Rosniak, The Surfer promises to add even more clips to Cage’s ever-growing reel of eccentric characters. This time in a wetsuit! Cage fans won’t want to miss it, so here’s what to know about where to watch The Surfer movie and when we expect The Surfer streaming release date on Hulu. Where to watch the Nicolas Cage movie The Surfer: For now, The Surfer will only be available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in theaters wide in the U.S. on Friday, May 2. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. The Surfer is not yet available to watch online or on streaming. Is The Surfer 2025 movie streaming on Netflix or Prime Video? The Surfer is not streaming on Netflix or Prime Video right now. While it’s possible The Surfer may stream on Netflix someday, it won’t be any time soon. The Surfer is not a Netflix original—it’s a small, independent film being distributed by Roadside Attractions. Right now, Roadside Attractions has an output deal with Hulu, which means Hulu has the exclusive rights to stream The Surfer after the movie’s theatrical release during the “Pay 1” window. You will be able to purchase The Surfer on Prime Video eventually, when the movie becomes available to buy and rent on digital, but you will not be able to stream The Surfer for free on Prime Video any time soon, because it is not a Prime original movie. If you want to watch The Surfer movie at home, you’ll have to wait for the film to be available to buy or rent on digital platforms, or wait for it to stream on Hulu. When will The Surfer movie release on digital? The Surfer movie digital release date has not yet been announced. However, we can make an educated guess as to when we might see The Surfer on video-on-demand, based on the digital release of previous films from Roadside Attractions. Another Roadside Attractions movie, Riff Raff, was released in theaters on February 28, and was released on digital platforms on March 21—aka, about one month after opening in theaters. If The Surfer follows a similar pattern, you might see the movie on video-on-demand in about one month, around June 2025. That said, other Roadside movies have taken two months to come to digital, so you might be waiting until July. After The Surfer releases on digital, we expect to see the movie streaming on Hulu. When will The Surfer movie be streaming on Hulu? The Surfer movie is not currently streaming on Hulu, but we do expect to see The Surfer on Hulu sometime in the next six months, because the film’s distributor, Roadside Attractions, has had an output deal with Hulu since 2022, which means Hulu has the exclusive streaming rights to Roadside films during the post-theatrical Pay 1 window. There is no official The Surfer Hulu release date yet, but based on past releases—like Small Things Like These, which released in theaters on November 8 and began streaming on Hulu on April 15—we can guess that The Surfer will stream on Hulu in about five months, around early October 2025. But this is all speculation. If you want to see The Surfer right away, you can catch the movie in a theater.