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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Phase 4 Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Phase 4 Films
  • 1 h 26 m

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 o...

Directed By: Shana Betz

Written By: Shana Betz

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Phase 4 Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Phase 4 Films
  • 1 h 26 m

Free Ride

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
41
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
6.3
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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 o...

Directed By: Shana Betz

Written By: Shana Betz

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
41
11% Positive
1 Review
67% Mixed
6 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
41
11% Positive
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67% Mixed
6 Reviews
22% Negative
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70
Jan 9, 2014
Free Ride offers an unsettling vision of a demimonde whose inhabitants live with the reality that there may be no tomorrow.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 12, 2013
The script’s autobiographical roots tend to substitute for a well-constructed dramatic throughline, giving the film an open-endedness that feels more dismissive than ambivalent.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
40
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.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
40
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.
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30
Jan 7, 2014
The film is content to merely document certain happenings and hope you find them as interesting as it does.
By Michael Nordine FULL REVIEW
25
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.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
6.3
43% Positive
3 Ratings
43% Mixed
3 Ratings
14% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
6.3
43% Positive
3 Ratings
43% Mixed
3 Ratings
14% Negative
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Production Company Aberration Films, CASM Films, Pantry Films, Ringling College Studio Labs
Release Date Jan 10, 2014
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Crime pays...or it costs you everything.
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Awards

Hamptons International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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