Drift

Drift is a 2013 Australian film about the birth of the surf industry in the 1970s. It was shot in Western Australia and co-directed by Morgan O'Neill and Ben Nott. It stars Sam Worthington, Xavier Samuel, and Myles Pollard. It is inspired by real events. Plot In the late 1960s, two young brothers in Sydney escape a violent household with their mother Kat by stealing the family car as her partner sleeps. They cross the continent with the intention of hiding out and making a new start in distant Albany, Western Australia. Arriving south of Perth on the West Coast, they spot a perfect surf break and convince Kat to settle instead in a caravan park in Seacliffe, and the kids attend a local school while their mother does piecework as a seamstress. Years later, in 1972, they are young adults, living with their mum in a run-down house she bought by the beach. Older brother Andy works in a timber mill: surf prodigy Jimmy wins the 1972 Seacliffe Amateur surf title - but away from the surf, he is listless and involved in petty crime.