Hardflip (2012) on Netflix

Plot summary

Caleb Jones is eighteen. He skateboards, and he is certain that a sponsorship is the only way out of his troubles. His mother, Beth, holds down two jobs to make ends meet, and no father is in his life. When Beth is hospitalized with cancer, Caleb has to deal with her illness and with his own lack of responsibility. He finds a stack of old love letters and learns that his father, Jack, has lived in the next town his whole life. Hurt and angry, Caleb reluctantly contacts the man he never knew. His only real friend is Ralph, a homeless street preacher who guides him with words from God's Word.