Markie Goes to the Movies: Surfwise (dir. Doug Pray)

One of those movies that starts off on the surfing-lifestyle, Endless Summer tip, then spirals deep into creepiness. Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, the patriarch of "the first family of surfing", ditches his medical practice to pursue the Sixties hippie dream: marry a beautiful woman, have lots of babies, and drive around going surfing instead of boring stuff like having a job and going to school. Unsurprisingly, the kids' friends in each place the family wanders off to fall in love with the kids and their free-from-responsibility lifestyle. It's only gradually revealed that Doc is, besides his generous donation of medical services in poor, doctorless communities and rejection of the American Dream, a fascist and a bit of a nut: he prescribes the diet for his kids, whacks 'em when they get out of line, has sex with their mom while all 11 of them are sleeping in a 24-foot van. You see the tragedy play out in the lives of all these feral kids when they grow up into adults who've never learned to function in the "real world." So, like many a narcissistic visionary before him, Dorian looks back on the things he's made people sacrifice to feel part of a special family unit and life but doesn't see the cost to his own. He did it his way, and if that means engineering a deus-ex-machina ending with all nine kids reuniting with him or letting the camera crew in to film him exercising naked on his Honolulu balcony, so be it.