Riding in Cars with Boys

2001

Action / Biography / Comedy / Drama

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 66% · 107 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 31681 31.7K

puberty dream dreams baby becoming an adult wife

Plot summary

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

Director

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Penny Marshall

Top cast

Drew Barrymore Photo
Drew Barrymore as Beverly Donofrio
Gaetano Lisi Photo
Gaetano Lisi as Sweeny's Owner
Gene Canfield Photo
Gene Canfield as Pete
Logan Lerman Photo
Logan Lerman as Jason - Age 8
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.18 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 3
2.19 GB
1904*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 11 min
Seeds 22

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lozannodaniel 8 / 10

It's funny, sad, and everything in between.

Reviewed by wndrboy2 8 / 10

I like this beautiful rare movie about real American life.

I'm a Chinese staying and traveling in U.S. Four years ago, I lived in Enterprise, Alabama for 7 months, and befriended with many "southerners". I know how a lot of ordinary Americans feel when they struggle in their lives every day -- sad, lost, and almost desperate. This is a country full of freedom and opportunities. But in reality, one bad move in this system usually is enough to ruin a person's life, leaving no way for coming back. Being knocked up in high school, dropping out, drug, drinking, gun, bad credit,lawsuits.... This is the side of U.S not mentioned often enough on TV or movies, and is real. I loved this movie and would like to see it again when I get a chance. 8 out of 10. Also recommend another loosely similar movie from France: "Dream Life of the Angels", with more remarkable performances and a more shocking story.
Reviewed by pauleky 6 / 10

A little disappointing...

I greatly anticipated this film based on the trailer and advertising. Having not read the book on which this is based, I had no idea what to expect. First, let me say that the actors, for the most part, were excellent, with Brittany Murphy (Fay) and Steve Zahn (Ray) particular stand-outs. Drew Barrymore is fine in the lead (Beverly), but, unfortunately, she is the main problem with the film. She is supposed to age from 15 to 36 in this film. I could easily buy her in the flashback scenes to her teenage and young mother years, but I just could not buy her as a thirty-six year old mother of a twenty-year old. It was just too distracting; they appeared more like boyfriend and girlfriend and that just nearly ruined the film for me. Drew's acting is fine, but she just doesn't look the part in the latter day scenes. A more mature actress was needed. Still, the movie was entertaining, though a bit too long. Penny Marshall's direction was fine, but she's a long way from "A League Of Their Own" and "Big". I rated this 6/10, mainly for the performances of Murphy, Zahn, Lorraine Bracco and James Woods (as Beverly's parents) and Cody Arens (as the 6-year-old Jason, Bev's son) who were all outstanding.
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