Free Ride

Name: Free Ride
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: January 10, 2014
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 41

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Phase 4 Films | Release Date: January 10, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: In search of a better life for her family and desperate to escape her tumultuous relationship, Christina (Anna Paquin) hastily moves to Florida and enters the dangerous world of the underground drug scene. She quickly learns that dealing drugs at the height of South Florida’s smuggling heyday has its price. As law enforcement closes in onIn search of a better life for her family and desperate to escape her tumultuous relationship, Christina (Anna Paquin) hastily moves to Florida and enters the dangerous world of the underground drug scene. She quickly learns that dealing drugs at the height of South Florida’s smuggling heyday has its price. As law enforcement closes in on Christina and her drug operation, she must find a way to salvage the life she has desperately worked to repair before it all comes crashing down. [Phase 4 Films]… Expand

Director: Shana Betz

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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Stephen Holden

Jan 9, 2014

Free Ride offers an unsettling vision of a demimonde whose inhabitants live with the reality that there may be no tomorrow. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Jan 8, 2014

Shana Betz's too-insistent refusal to commit to the melodramatic or to the suspenseful only makes the film seem like empty dramatization. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Jan 9, 2014

The result, while sincere and nicely evoked, feels choppy, familiar and, despite the script's heavily stacked deck — and a few harrowing episodes — lacks sufficient momentum. Read full review

John DeFore

Jan 7, 2014

The film's generosity toward Christina's decision-making is, however true to life, dramatically unsatisfying. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Jan 10, 2014

On the bright side, the charismatic Liberato is one to watch. And de Matteo (“The Sopranos”) brings a crucial jolt of assertive energy. Both seem to be in another, more exciting movie entirely. Read full review

Christina Izzo

Jan 8, 2014

It’s in these parent-free gaps that the film becomes less a vehicle for Paquin or helmer Betz (too benign to critically sketch her criminal mother), and more one for Liberato. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jan 10, 2014

It’s unspeakably depressing to see Anna Paquin playing the mom (of a teenager!), but the pointlessness and mediocrity of the Paquin-produced Free Ride is even more depressing. Read full review

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edithann

Jan 13, 2014

I thought it was a great movie, considering those who watch it will not know what scenes were cut out completely. The Sarasota, FL bar scene and all in it, cut out...Aay Mate...The Sarasota school scene, where are the girls? Cut out. That is a disapointment for all that participated andI thought it was a great movie, considering those who watch it will not know what scenes were cut out completely. The Sarasota, FL bar scene and all in it, cut out...Aay Mate...The Sarasota school scene, where are the girls? Cut out. That is a disapointment for all that participated and waited 2 years to see. The movie needed to last 1/2 hr. longer. But all in all, it was a great production. True story. Cast was great, in person and on screen. I would recommend seeing it. I plan on purchasing.
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Broyax

Apr 10, 2019

Elle est charmante Anna Paquin mais ce vague téléfilm à la mords-moi-le-noeud ne tient pas la distance : à peine une heure et demi et ça rame comme c'est pas permis... Pourtant, avec un tel sujet (la mère de famille qui va trafiquer en Floride au début des années 70) on aurait pu espérerElle est charmante Anna Paquin mais ce vague téléfilm à la mords-moi-le-noeud ne tient pas la distance : à peine une heure et demi et ça rame comme c'est pas permis... Pourtant, avec un tel sujet (la mère de famille qui va trafiquer en Floride au début des années 70) on aurait pu espérer autre chose qu'un truc aussi plat et bidon. Mais non...

Superficiel et convenu, ça ne décolle jamais et le petit budget (on s'en doute) n'excuse pas tout, surtout pas l"indigence d'un scénar aux fraises et une mise en scène de hamster mort. Bref, un navet poussif et tout-à-fait dispensable.… Expand

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