Here’s the trailer and clip for an upcoming Rodeo-inspired drama titled Ride. The movie follows three generations of bull riders who fight to raise money to transfer the family’s young daughter to a better cancer hospital. This looks like it’ll be a solid movie!
The synopsis reads: “Desperate to raise money for his daughter’s cancer treatment, a retired bull rider teams up with his estranged son and resorts to robbery to secure payment before time runs out.
“But after the heist goes awry, keeping the money—and their freedom—requires the duo to outwit a dogged pair of local law enforcement officers, including a justice-minded sheriff who soon suspects that the key to her case may lie uncomfortably close to home.”
The movie was written and directed by Jake Allyn, and he offered some insight into the film, saying: “I’m from Texas; Ride is about my home, my heart. It explores amateur rodeo, addiction in the Heartland, and the cowboy’s place in modern America through the eyes of one struggling family.”
He continued: “The film is inspired by Stephenville, TX, a rural town that still glorifies the cowboy despite addiction and poverty consuming a place known as The Cowboy Capital. Even as you enter town, the proud welcome sign is bent over, eerily reminiscent of a bull rider desperately hanging on.
“While this film honors that fading way of western life, it also holds a mirror up to many of these rural communities. Places that feel left behind by a 21st century world, struggling so hard to maintain their legacy and values, that they get held up; a term for a fallen bull-rider whose hand is stuck in the grip, dragged across dirt holding onto a ride they already lost.”
The filmmaker goes on to say: “Each character reflects this resilient yet flawed western ethos stemming from real life cowboy tales and years of research.
“For instance, the three generations of bull riders in the film are played by Forrie J. Smith, C. Thomas Howell, and myself. Forrie and C. Thomas were once real bull-riders. Together, we mined their upbringings to inject the film with countless real-life moments.
“Like a bull rider sitting in a locker room, ribs beaten and bruised, refusing to quit, and staring at a pill. Even Annabeth Gish’s character, the iconic lawwoman, is made grey when her headstrong character finds herself alone in a trap house slowly realizing this suffocating drug den is a place her son calls home.
He explains: “We shot this film amidst live rodeos, working ranches, cast real cowboys, and partnered with a drug cop who lost his child to addiction in order to make an authentic modern-western that truly resembles the ‘modern west’.”
The movie also stars Annabeth Gish, Jake Allyn, Patrick Murney, Josh Plasse, Laci Kaye Booth, Scott Reeves, and Zia Carlock.
The movie is currently available on VOD.
