Ride

2014
R
1h 33m

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

4.5K

YOUR RATING

Helen Hunt and Brenton Thwaites in Ride (2014)

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Comedy Drama

A mother travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.A mother travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.A mother travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

4.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The second film in which Helen Hunt's character surfs. Her first was Soul Surfer (2011).

Quotes
Jackie: Would you tell him if that's how someone made him feel?
Angelo: I'd tell him if that someone would rather die than sit still, than be with one thing - one son. If that person wanted to be near me, I'd stay very, very far away, and I wouldn't come back.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Helen Hunt/Jesse Eisenberg/My Morning Jacket (2015)

Soundtracks
Suite Bergamasque - 1 - Prelude
Composed by Claude Debussy
Performed by Peter Schmalfuss

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Interesting mother-son relationship

My impression is nearly everyone is responding to this in stereotypical ways - seeing the mother as impossibly overbearing and interfering.

Actually mother and son have a great relationship. They argue intensely and in detail about what his stories should be like - and about life and their relationship in general. This is very well portrayed. And most of us should be so lucky to have such a relationship.

So she takes it too far - but hardly in a Tennessee Williams way. And they argue intensely about that too, and work their way to a successful conclusion.

Sure, it's all a little too Hollywood pat and neat in the end.

But you have an unusual portrait of an unusual and very good mother-son relationship - and a very passionately involved mother. She's very OK.

I enjoyed it a lot.