The Rider
Movie
2018
1h 43m
R
English
Drama, Western
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The Rider
Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.
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Cast
Brady Blackburn
Wayne Blackburn
Lilly Blackburn
Cat Clifford
Terri Dawn Pourier
Lane Scott
Tanner Langdeau
James Calhoon
Victor Chasing Hawk
Bar Owner
Fourth Rodeo Cowboy
Frank
Miles
Bill
Rodeo Cowboy #2
Rodeo Cowboy #3
Bar Patron #2
Directed By: Chloé Zhao
Written By: Chloé Zhao
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Keeper70
6 years ago
Director Chloe Zhao making the film over a short time period on a tight budget uses amateurs and non-actors throughout the film with Brady Jandreau and his family playing celluloid versions of themselves right down to the brain injury the real Brady suffered being part of this film’s narrative.
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smallclone
/10 6 years ago
Where to start with The Rider……it’s good. It’s very good, but it is overly sentimental in parts. There are certain elements that just seem to be trying a little too hard to tweak emotions. But that’s the only bad thing I can say about it.
This is almost an experimental hyper real concep More
This is almost an experimental hyper real concep More
Bertaut
/10 2 years ago
Honest, raw, and respectful
Partly an elegy for a dissipating way of life, partly an examination of the self-destructive components of contemporary masculinity, and partly a deconstruction of the iconography of the American frontier, The Rider is the second film from Chinese-American writer/directo More
Partly an elegy for a dissipating way of life, partly an examination of the self-destructive components of contemporary masculinity, and partly a deconstruction of the iconography of the American frontier, The Rider is the second film from Chinese-American writer/directo More
Stephen Campbell
6 years ago
**_Honest, raw, and respectful_**
> _I never really had a choice to be a cowboy. It was just in my blood. It was the way my family lived; grew up on horses my whole life. I would ride a horse all by myself when I was about a year-and-a-half. I don't really know anything else. I wouldn't have it a More
> _I never really had a choice to be a cowboy. It was just in my blood. It was the way my family lived; grew up on horses my whole life. I would ride a horse all by myself when I was about a year-and-a-half. I don't really know anything else. I wouldn't have it a More
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