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A single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s tries to make a better life for her two girls.A single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s tries to make a better life for her two girls.A single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s tries to make a better life for her two girls.
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Daniella Garcia
- Zada
- (as Daniella Garcia-Lorido)
Kyle T. Heffner
- Messenger
- (as Kyle Heffner)
- …
Vincent Foster
- Captain Jim
- (as VJ Foster)
Michael Coveduck Noland
- Neighbor Boy
- (as Michael Coveduck)
Yvette Yates Redick
- Gia
- (as Yvette Yates)
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- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaAlthough the movie is supposed to take place in the late '70s, in two of the bar scenes "Say Goodnight to the World" by Dax Riggs, released in 2010, can be heard playing in the background.
- GoofsModern pull-tabs on beer cans in scenes set in the late '70s, several years before they were designed and implemented.
- ConnectionsReferences The Waltons (1972)
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Gas, grass or ass nobody rides for free
"Free Ride," the feature film debut of Shana Betz, who wrote the screenplay, has the benefit of being the true story of a part of her childhood and is narrated by her alter-ego, the grown-up Shell. From top to bottom, it feels authentic, and its laid-back, nonjudgmental tone evokes the easygoing world of Jimmy Buffett songs celebrating how changes in latitude bring changes in attitude. Much of the movie seems bathed in the pink-grapefruit haze of a Florida sunset.
Before long, Christina and the girls are moved from a seedy motel to a farmhouse with a barn that shelters a horse for M J but also doubles as a drug warehouse that the girls are forbidden to enter. The domestic drama focuses on Christina's increasingly fraught relationship with the sullen, rebellious M J, who is itching for grown-up adventure and balks at having to take care of Shell while their mother is away on business.
Their conflict comes to an ugly head after Christina allows M J to accompany a drug-addicted acquaintance, Rain (Brit Morgan), to a rock concert. Ms. Morgan's Rain is a frighteningly accurate portrait of a bitter, superannuated groupie on the skids.
"Free Ride" is shrewdly cast. Ms. Paquin balances her character's two sides: the caring mother and the pragmatic working-class survivor who does what is necessary to survive. Cam Gigandet is equally believable as Ray, a shady, laid-back hunk with whom she flirts and who is the closest thing to a love interest. Ms. De Matteo is all sharp edges as the tough Sandy, who ominously disappears. That's the thing about this world: People tend to vanish at the first sign of trouble.
"Free Ride" offers an unsettling vision of a demimonde whose inhabitants live with the reality that there may be no tomorrow.
Before long, Christina and the girls are moved from a seedy motel to a farmhouse with a barn that shelters a horse for M J but also doubles as a drug warehouse that the girls are forbidden to enter. The domestic drama focuses on Christina's increasingly fraught relationship with the sullen, rebellious M J, who is itching for grown-up adventure and balks at having to take care of Shell while their mother is away on business.
Their conflict comes to an ugly head after Christina allows M J to accompany a drug-addicted acquaintance, Rain (Brit Morgan), to a rock concert. Ms. Morgan's Rain is a frighteningly accurate portrait of a bitter, superannuated groupie on the skids.
"Free Ride" is shrewdly cast. Ms. Paquin balances her character's two sides: the caring mother and the pragmatic working-class survivor who does what is necessary to survive. Cam Gigandet is equally believable as Ray, a shady, laid-back hunk with whom she flirts and who is the closest thing to a love interest. Ms. De Matteo is all sharp edges as the tough Sandy, who ominously disappears. That's the thing about this world: People tend to vanish at the first sign of trouble.
"Free Ride" offers an unsettling vision of a demimonde whose inhabitants live with the reality that there may be no tomorrow.
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- Also known as
- Çocuklarım İçin
- Filming locations
- Venice, Florida, USA(Location: Various throughout area)
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- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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