Free Ride
Set in 1970s South Florida, Anna Paquin (TV's True Blood) stars as a single mother caught up in the drug smuggling business while trying to make a better life for her two daughters. Based on writer/director Shana Betz's own memoirs, produced by Paquin and her True Blood co-star and husband Stephen Moyer.
Desperate to escape her abusive boyfriend, Christina (Paquin) moves cross-country to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and is introduced to the dangerous world of high-stakes drug smuggling by her friend Sandy (The Soprano's Drea de Matteo). She quickly learns that dealing drugs, at the height of South Florida's smuggling heyday, has its price.
- Director:
- Shana Betz (feature debut)
- Writer:
- Shana Betz
- Cast:
- Anna PaquinDrea de MatteoCam GigandetLiana LiberatoAva Acres
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressLaid-back '70s period piece... waffles between professed admiration for a woman willing to risk anything for her kids and tacit disapproval of her chosen lifestyle.
Time Out
pressThe soulful up-and-comer crafts a far more perilous tale, one of a teenage caretaker getting a crash course in growing up too fast, too soon.
The New York Times
pressAn unsettling vision of a demimonde whose inhabitants live with the reality that there may be no tomorrow.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe film's generosity toward Christina's decision-making is, however true to life, dramatically unsatisfying.
Variety
pressLaid-back '70s period piece... waffles between professed admiration for a woman willing to risk anything for her kids and tacit disapproval of her chosen lifestyle.
Time Out
pressThe soulful up-and-comer crafts a far more perilous tale, one of a teenage caretaker getting a crash course in growing up too fast, too soon.
The New York Times
pressAn unsettling vision of a demimonde whose inhabitants live with the reality that there may be no tomorrow.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe film's generosity toward Christina's decision-making is, however true to life, dramatically unsatisfying.
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