The Last Ride

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  • Opened June 22, 2012 
  • 1 hr 42 min
  • PG-13 | Thematic Elements, A Fight, Some Language and Smoking
  • Hank Williams pioneered and pretty much invented what we know today as country music. At the peak of his career, he was acknowledged to be the greatest singer-songwriter in American history. But after a meteoric rise to record and radio super-stardom in the late 1940’s, the man had made a train wreck of his life. Drugs, alcohol, and a hair-trigger temper had ended two marriages, ruined a host of friendships and made the tortured genius a virtual untouchable in the music business. So at the end of 1952, Hank Williams gathered what was left of his physical strength to make things right, and begin the long road back. He booked New Years shows in West Virginia and Ohio, and hired a local kid who didn’t even own a radio, much less know who this legend was, to drive him there from Montgomery Alabama. Inspired by the mysterious final days Hank Williams’ mercurial life, THE LAST RIDE is the story of that final drive through the bleak Appalachian countryside of 1950’s America. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Henry Thomas, Jesse James, Kaley Cuoco, Fred Dalton Thompson, Stephen Tobolowsky
  • Director: Harry Z. Thomason
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Drama

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Good Storyline .....But Too Long.

by adawsonpredsfan

I enjoyed the storyline from "The Last Ride" but toward the end, I felt it was dragging in some parts that I was looking at the time to see if it was over yet....

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by moviedadguy

Great movie! Production went out of their way to authenticate the film. Must see!...

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New York Observer
| Rex Reed

It's a fascinating film that I enjoyed thoroughly. Read full review

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Arizona Republic
| Kerry Lengel

Unlike, say, Val Kilmer's Jim Morrison in "The Doors," Thomas makes no attempt to create a convincing facsimile of Hank Williams, which is just as well, since he bears little resemblance to the sinewy singer. Read full review

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Village Voice
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It portrays Williams in a generally sympathetic light without whitewashing his vice-loving, belligerent ways or mythologizing them in a bid for postmortem psychoanalysis. Read full review

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The New York Times
| Jeannette Catsoulis

This one is for Hank Williams fanatics only, and Mr. Thomas puts a dark and subtle sheen on a disappointingly watery script. Cover versions of Williams's songs - several sung by his daughter, Jett - remind us why he mattered, even as the movie fails to do the same. Read full review

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A scene from "The Last Ride."