The Surface is a 2014 American drama thriller film directed by Gil Cates Jr. and starring Sean Astin, Mimi Rogers, Chris Mulkey, and Jeff Gendelman.

Mitch takes his late father’s boat out to the center of Lake Michigan for a final ride in his memory, but collides with the wreckage of a small plane in the water.

Kelly, the pilot who survived the crash but severely injured, is pulled onto Mitch’s boat for rescue.

However, the debris of the wreckage had knocked the propeller off the boat’s motor, leaving both men stranded in the middle of the vast lake.

[1] Mimi Rogers also joined the cast on 7 August in the Good Notes Productions financing film.