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‘Hard Miles’ Review: Matthew Modine Stars in a Scenic Cycle Through the West
The long winding road to redemption beckons four juvenile offenders and their adult minders in R.J. Daniel Hanna’s satisfying drama 'Hard Miles.'
A grueling two-pedal route to the Grand Canyon just might provide the course-correction male juvenile offenders need in “ Hard Miles.” With Matthew Modine as their teacher-coach, this fact-inspired tale covers familiar redemptive sports drama terrain. In a film loosely based on the life and work of his character’s offscreen namesake, Modine plays avid cyclist Greg Townsend, welding instructor at a medium-security correctional residential school in Colorado. The pacing slackens somewhat around the two-thirds point, then rallies for separate climaxes sentimental (when Greg finally visits his father’s deathbed) and rousing (as the Grand Canyon is reached), both handled with moving restraint rather than heavy-handed melodrama or inspirational uplift.
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