Waves

"Love is patient."

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7.4/10

784 votes

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Awards & Recognition

Critical acclaim and industry honors

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Other Awards

🏆 1 win

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National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

Box Office Performance

Financial performance & earnings

Budget

$6.0M

Production Cost

Worldwide

$2.6M

Global Box Office

Loss

$-3,423,010

ROI: -57%

Budget Recovery43% of budget

$0|Budget: $6.0M|Revenue: $2.6M

Popularity Trend(Wikipedia)

60-Day Views

60.2K

Daily Avg

1.0K

7-Day Trend

-3%

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Story Setting

Set In

Florida

Time Period

20192018

Themes & Subjects

#crisis#guilt#mourning#forgiveness#parent–childrelationship#personaldevelopment#comingofage#love#family

Extended Crew & Production

Cinematography

Drew Daniels

Film Editing

Trey Edward Shults

Music / Score

Trent ReznorAtticus Ross

Distributors

Universal PicturesA24Focus Features

Technical Specifications

Color

color

Format

video on demand

Where to Watch Waves

Available in 82 countries

Country	Stream	Free	Rent	Buy
United States of AmericaR	—	Kanopy, Hoopla	Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, Spectrum On Demand	Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies
United Kingdom15	Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads	—	Apple TV Store, Rakuten TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube	Apple TV Store, Rakuten TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube
Canada	—	—	Apple TV Store, CosmoGo, Amazon Video	Apple TV Store, CosmoGo, Amazon Video
AustraliaMA15+	—	—	Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, Fetch TV	Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, Fetch TV
India	—	—	Amazon Video	—

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Age Ratings by Country

United StatesR

United Kingdom15

AustraliaMA15+

Germany12

FranceU

JapanPG12

Brazil12

FinlandK-16

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Production

Director

Trey Edward Shults

Writer

Trey Edward Shults

Production Companies

A24Bron StudiosJW FilmsGuy Grand Productions

Cast

Kelvin Harrison, Jr.

Tyler

Taylor Russell

Emily

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Catharine

Sterling K. Brown

Ronald

Lucas Hedges

Luke

Alexa Demie

Alexis

Neal Huff

Bill

Clifton Collins Jr.

Bobby

Krisha Fairchild

English Teacher

Ruben E. A. Brown

Wally

Joshua Brockington

Stan

No Image

Vivi Pineda

Elena

Tags & Keywords

high schoolfloridaregretforgivenesswrestlinglosscoming of agegrieftragedyinterracial relationshipbreak-updying fatherhealing processfamily dynamicsgeneration z

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