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‘Ride’ Review: A Texas Rodeo Family Turns to Crime to Fund a Young Girl’s Cancer Treatment
A rodeo family is forced to go to criminal extremes to fund a young girl's cancer treatment in Jake Allyn's intense drama.
It’s Ponyboy!” — and John Milius’ “Red Dawn.” But in addition to the scads of other movie and TV credits on his resume, including more than a few where he played a total badass, he also has an impressive background in real-life riding and roping that stretches back to before his screen debut. Hoping to help Virginia — and get back in the good graces of everyone else in his family, including his younger, non-rodeoing brother Noah (co-scripter John Plasse) — Peter ropes his father into a scheme to seize stacks of cash hidden in Tyler’s squalid home. As “Ride” proceeds, there’s a satisfying abundance of revealing character touches — whenever Gish pulls her hair back before donning Monica’s sheriff hat, you know this woman means business — along with a vividly persuasive evocation of small-town life in and out of the rodeo arena.
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