The Beach Bum
Movie2019·US, GB, FR, CH·1h 35min

The Beach Bum

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The Beach Bum (2019) is Harmony Korine's sun-baked comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Somewhere in Florida lives a poet called Moondog — perpetually stoned, perpetually in flip-flops, and utterly allergic to growing up.

Matthew McConaughey plays him as one long party: beer, weed, a typewriter and a book of poems that never quite gets finished. Moondog has a wealthy wife (Isla Fisher), an exasperated publisher, and a parade of oddballs orbiting him — Snoop Dogg's mellow rapper, Zac Efron's unhinged daredevil, Martin Lawrence's preachy boat-tour captain. Plot is almost beside the point; the man simply drifts from one absurd scrape to the next.

Korine isn't telling a story so much as bottling a mood: a loose, neon-lit haze where the meaning lives in the drifting itself. Some will find it shapeless, others will lock into the rhythm and never want out. It's made for fans of plotless arthouse and charming on-screen chaos. Stream The Beach Bum (2019) online on iFILM.

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