Hick (2011)

Director:

Derick Martini

Writers:

Andrea Portes (screenplay)
Andrea Portes (novel)

Release Date:

24 November 2012 (Japan)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas.

Plot Keywords:

Teenage Girl | Alcoholic Parent | Reference To Gloria Swanson | Female Grifter | Bus Ride

Cast

Chloë Grace Moretz	...	Luli McMullen
Christopher Coakley	...	Kid #1
Anson Mount	...	Nick
Juliette Lewis	...	Tammy
Tim Parati	...	Male Barfly
Robert Baker	...	Ray
Bob Stephenson	...	Lux (as Robert J. Stephenson)
Eddie Redmayne	...	Eddie Kreezer
Blake Lively	...	Glenda
Leon Lamar	...	Clerk
Jonathan Cornick	...	Cop #2 (as Jon Cornick)
Brian Avery Galligan	...	EMT
Shaun Sipos	...	Blane
Dartanian Sloan	...	Angel
Michael G. Jefferson	...	Flannel Drunk (as Michael Jefferson)
Matt Malloy	...	Bunny Looker
Ray McKinnon	...	Lloyd
Dave Vescio	...	Stranger (as David Allen Vescio)
Jody Thompson	...	Bartender
Beth Malone	...	Sherri
Gina Stewart	...	Crystal
Rory Culkin	...	Clement
Alec Baldwin	...	Beau
Troy Rudeseal	...	Bus Driver
Daisy De La Hoya	...	Special LA Bus Guest
Trevor Duke-Moretz	...	Special LA Bus Guest (as Trevor Moretz)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Chevy Lamont Cofield	...	Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Jason Damico	...	Jock (uncredited)
Carolyn Foland	...	Townie / Mother (uncredited)
Beth Gosnell	...	Bar Patron (uncredited)
Richard Wes Howren	...	Bus Rider (uncredited)
Marianne Meador	...	Woman at Ice Cream Stand (uncredited)
Joe Montanti	...	L A Bus Driver (uncredited)
Jim Prim	...	Redneck (uncredited)
Pat Thomas	...	Bar Patron (uncredited)

Directed by
Derick Martini

Writing credits
Andrea Portes		(screenplay)
Andrea Portes		(novel)

Produced by
Tommy Brazie	....	co-executive producer
Jonathan Cornick	....	producer (as Jon Cornick)
Charles de Portes	....	executive producer
Charles de Portes	....	producer
Trevor Duke-Moretz	....	co-executive producer
Stuart Gibson	....	co-executive producer
Paul Greenwood	....	co-executive producer
Michael G. Jefferson	....	co-producer (as Michael Jefferson)
Teri Duke Moretz	....	co-executive producer (as Teri Moretz)
Andrea Portes	....	co-producer
Pedro Portes	....	co-executive producer (as Dr. Pedro Portes)
Steven Siebert	....	producer
Anna Margaret Smedvig	....	co-executive producer
Christian Taylor	....	producer

Original Music by
Larry Campbell

Cinematography by
Frank Godwin

Film Editing by
Mark Yoshikawa

Casting by
Eyde Belasco

Production Design by
Roshelle Berliner

Art Direction by
Brian Stultz

Set Decoration by
Andy Krish

Costume Design by
Erika Munro

Makeup Department
Vivian Baker	....	makeup artist: Blake Lively
Fabian Garcia	....	hair department head
Louisa Gore Hamn	....	key makeup artist (as Louisa Gore)
Emanuel Millar	....	hair stylist: Blake Lively (as Emmanuel Millar)
Bryan David Moss	....	additional hair stylist (as Bryan Moss)
Joan Shay	....	key hair stylist
Leo Won	....	makeup department head

Production Management
Jonathan Cornick	....	unit production manager (as Jon Cornick)
Les Franck	....	production supervisor
Ruheene Masand	....	production manager
Tim Pedegana	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ryan Bennett	....	second second assistant director (as Ryan 'Flash' Bennett)
Brian Avery Galligan	....	second assistant director
Michael G. Jefferson	....	first assistant director (as Michael Jefferson)

Art Department
Kim Akers	....	painter (as Kimberly D. Akers)
Robert Beck	....	property master (as Robbie Beck)
Kim Breece	....	art department production assistant (as Kimberly Breece)
Richard Colwell	....	paint foreman
Amy Dholakia-Jorand	....	additional graphic artist
Silas Dobyns	....	propmaker (as Silas P. Dobyns)
Stephanie Hagens	....	illustrator
Stephanie Hagens	....	title sequence designer
Margie McLamb Holowaty	....	art department coordinator (as Margie Holowaty)
Rebecca Lee	....	painter (as Rebecca D. Lee)
Rebecca Leonard	....	painter
Richard Pipkin	....	construction coordinator (as Richard F. Pipkin)
Emma Segasture	....	on set painter
Adam Willis	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Jeff Babb	....	epk sound mixer
Jason Brennan	....	dialog supervisor
Jason Brennan	....	sound re-recording mixer
David Jobe	....	foley mixer
Steve Mann	....	sound effects editor
Jason Oliver	....	adr mixer
Terry Rodman	....	sound designer
Terry Rodman	....	sound re-recording mixer
Terry Rodman	....	supervising sound editor
Carl Rudisill	....	sound mixer
John Skoglund	....	sound utility
Andy Stallabrass	....	adr mixer
Deron Street	....	first assistant sound editor

Special Effects by
David Beavis	....	special effects supervisor
Susan Beavis	....	special effects buyer
Jeffrey L. Loy	....	special effects foreman

Visual Effects by
Dan Browne	....	systems admistrator: Evil Eye Pictures
John L. Jack	....	visual effects producer
Sohee Kim	....	roto/paint artist: Evil Eye Pictures
Patrick Louie	....	rotoscope artist: Evil Eye Pictures
Ruheene Masand	....	vfx production manager
Daniel P. Rosen	....	visual effects supervisor: Evil Eye Pictures

Stunts
Jeremy Conner	....	stunts
Bob Fisher	....	stunt coordinator
John Gilbert	....	stunt coordinator
John Gilbert	....	stunt double: Eddie Redmayne
Dino Muccio	....	stunt coordinator
Haley Nott	....	stunt coordinator
Michele Waitman	....	stunts
Haley Nott	....	utility stunts (uncredited)
Michele Waitman	....	stunt double: Chloe Moretz (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Andy Bader	....	camera loader
Stacy Barnhill	....	grip
Logan R. Berkshire	....	key grip
Patrick Borowiak	....	first assistant camera
Troy Carlton	....	crane operator
Troy Carlton	....	grip
Scott Frye	....	dolly grip
Bryan Kupko	....	camera production assistant
Matt Malloy	....	gaffer
John McIntyre	....	second assistant camera
Jeff Moore	....	camera operator
Ritchie Nannini	....	grip
Fred Norris	....	still photographer
Neil Orchard	....	electrician
Kenny Rivenbark	....	libra operator
Eric Townsend	....	grip
Sean Yaple	....	second assistant camera: "b" camera

Casting Department
Nathaniel Kistler	....	casting assistant
Vanessa Neimeyer	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Karman Graham Franck	....	costume assistant
Joyce Marling	....	wardrobe supervisor

Editorial Department
Liz Calandrello	....	assistant editor
Dannielle Carr	....	post-production assistant
Christy House	....	post-production coordinator
Kindra Marra	....	associate editor
Scot Olive	....	digital intermediate colorist

Music Department
P.J. Bloom	....	music supervisor
Larry Campbell	....	composer: theme music
Bob Dylan	....	composer: main title theme
Jon Mooney	....	music editor

Transportation Department
Russell l Byrd	....	driver (as Russell Byrd)
Neil Castles Jr.	....	camera car driver
Ty Church	....	transportation coordinator
Mark McNeill	....	transportation captain
Rick Parkinson	....	driver
Linda Pickett	....	driver
Jesse Smith	....	driver
Greg Stancil	....	picture car coordinator
Greg Stancil	....	transportation co-captain

Other crew
T. Julian Bell	....	stand-in/photo double
Michelle Lee Brown	....	craft service (as Michelle Brown)
Robyn M. Brown	....	craft service assistant (as Robyn Brown)
Michael Buster	....	dialect coach: Eddie Redmayne
Randy Byers	....	assistant location manager
Victoria Carnall	....	payroll accountant
Karen Chalk Wheeler	....	production accountant (as Karen Chalk Hughes)
Andrew Chalk	....	accounting clerk
Carol A. Compton	....	script clearance
Ryan Daeche	....	location representative
Trevor Duke-Moretz	....	acting coach: on set
Brandon Goertz	....	assistant to production supervisor
Jonathan Gray	....	production counsel
James Billy Hill III	....	location assistant
Corey L. Howard	....	set production assistant
Ingrid Johanson	....	production coordinator
Michael L. Kuhn	....	location assistant
Andrew L. Lanier	....	location scout
Brian A. Litman	....	assistant post-production accountant
Ashley Mayfield	....	office production assistant
Shaun O'Rourke	....	office production assistant
Tarah Phillippi	....	first production accountant
Patrick Priest	....	set production assistant
Chayne Ryan	....	accounting intern
Geoffrey Ryan	....	location manager
David Ryder	....	production secretary
Howard Samuelsohn	....	dialect coach
Jeff Sanders	....	legal services: production finance
Dee Schuka	....	post production accountant
Kate Segovis	....	assistant: Jonathan Cornick
Andy Sleet	....	location scout (as Andrew Sleet)
Justin Soponis	....	assistant production coordinator
Tarin Squillante	....	set production assistant
London Stewart	....	location scout
Ian M. Stratford	....	financial counsel
Anita Surendran	....	production counsel
Aaron Lee Syrett	....	film commissioner
Jennifer Taginski	....	set medic
Laura Torrance	....	studio teacher
Tony Wallace	....	key assistant location manager
Lauren Weingarten	....	location assistant
Matthew Wright	....	location assistant
Karman Graham Franck	....	post payroll accountant (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Stone River Productions (presents)
• Lighthouse Entertainment
• Taylor Lane Productions (as TL Production)
• Treetop Productions (in association with)

Distributors

• Annie Planet (2012) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Phase 4 Films (2012) (USA) (theatrical)
• Film1 (2013) (Netherlands) (TV) (limited)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2012) (Australia) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Evil Eye Pictures (visual effects by)

Other Companies

• Brauer & Co.  tax credits
• De Lane Lea  ADR recording
• Gray Krauss Des Rochers  legal services
• IndieClear  script clearance
• North Carolina Film Office  thanks
• Panavision  camera equipment provided by
• Ritholz Levy Sanders Chidekel & Fields  legal services: production finance
• Three Point Capital  funding
• Trevanna Post  post-production accounting

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated R for disturbing content involving a teen, violence, drug use, language and drinking

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:MA15+ (2012) | Japan:PG12 | UK:15 | Netherlands:16

Filming Locations:

Nevada, USA

Company:

Stone River Productions

Trivia:

Colin Farrell was considered for a role, but had to decline due to scheduling conflicts.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Male student:Bar baby.
Female student:Yeah, I heard she was born in a bar.
Luli McMullen:You could shake your knuckles at the sky. You could get mad and say I don't got nothing. You could get stuck.

Movie Connections:

References Dirty Harry (1971)

Soundtrack:

Crimson And Clover

A tough growing up for a girl in a story to be

I saw it as a movie that works with a young girl's expectations and anxiety, while she grows fast in a very complicated environment, passing through tough situations. She's in the middle of building a new identity, because of her age, after her family brakes up and abandons her in the middle of nowhere. She is in a completely fragile and vulnerable position, but her mind, heart and soul are trying to find a way for her life, for her personality and for her values. She brings memories and integrity from childhood that now have to face a grown up world, without any help. It's a movie about a story to be, that can't find a solution until it ends.

Characters and plot are searching, they are all in the road and this constant reference to the road makes the extreme beauty of this movie. Hick, or Luli, the girl is not just the main character but she is also the personification of this story to be, girl to be, to find her own answers and life while passing through all the changes of her age and without any base but two very problematic older friends she met. There is a total identity between the girl and the space she lives in an is trying to get out of. The light, the desert sceneries, they make Luli great, strong, and that's why she keeps going on. Because, after all, that's her world and her life, and we see all the action as if those were her own mind working, searching for answers and for a way out of the trouble.

She is completely alone and lost, but she wants to experience this new life, she desires this new world, so it's not only a drama, it's also an adventure. She loves the ones that cannot love her back the way she needs the most, neither the way she wants, but they love her two, while lost in their own worlds. They couldn't find anything better, while she just doesn't give up, and that is a conflict with bad consequences, as the sexual molest. Luli is growing up in a extreme situation and she is determined to patiently pass through everything she'll have to go through, to get over it.

The most simple things of life are not allowed here, there is no access to it. In a situation like that, what would anyone do? That's what this movie is about. Hick represents a distance from the possible world and from the real world. It's a situation her people are indeed struggling so desperately every day to keep their lives. But, somehow, in the edges of this forgotten world it's effectively reality who keeps them prisoners, so this story asks for reflection too.

It's not exactly an imaginary story, elements are very real and we can feel their impact in social differences or in the power relation between men and women, and in the uneven risks a young girl has to take to go on with her life. We can find all this elements in our daily lives. Luli feels deep love and friendship and learns its forms in this very disturbing world. She can't just say no and go back to anything before that. She has this chance repeatedly but she knows she has to move forward, no matter what, it's her only way out.

Chloë Grace Moretz, Eddie Redmayne and Blake Lively hold the story with an intense acting, strong rhythm and gradual tension, until the outcomes. I also liked very much the direction of Derick Martini and the approach of the story. It's not inappropriate at all, if we think that sexuality gains more and more importance every day in our times, in this culture where precocity and desire are so stimulated, and we have Internet. There's got to be a permanent discussion about it. Chloë is a very mature girl for her age, that can be seen in the movie, as an actress she entirely dominates her role and gives it strong traces and emotions. One more great job for her brilliant career. Eddie Redmayne and Blake Lively worked with her in perfect connection and that allowed this movie to be so expressive in a very single story.