The elderly and fading rodeo-rider Joe Wade (Tom Selleck) picks up the young female hitchhiker Ruby Jean (Rebekah Johnson). Even though that Joe is constantly being corrected by Ruby Jean ...
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| Tom Selleck | ... | Joe Wade | |
| Rebekah Johnson | ... | Ruby Jean | |
| JoBeth Williams | ... | Rose | |
| Ben Johnson | ... | Big Man | |
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Eileen Seeley | ... | Margaret Johnson |
| John Diehl | ... | Harris Johnson | |
| Margo Martindale | ... | Frankie | |
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Larry Soller | ... | Harry |
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Robert Guajardo | ... | R.J.'s Hitchhike Driver |
| Robert Starr | ... | Motel Clerk | |
| Forrie J. Smith | ... | Birthday Drunk | |
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Ed Adams | ... | Bar Bully |
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Darwin Hall | ... | Annoyed Cowboy |
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Warner McKay | ... | Homer |
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Boots Southerland | ... | Telephone Cowboy |
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The elderly and fading rodeo-rider Joe Wade (Tom Selleck) picks up the young female hitchhiker Ruby Jean (Rebekah Johnson). Even though that Joe is constantly being corrected by Ruby Jean their beginning friendship is growing. Their conversations on the road puts both of them in a position to deal with their lives. Written by <ufferingpetersen@mail.tele.dk>
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11 August 1996 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Ruby Jean: You don't have to answer right away, Joe. You can give it some thought.
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Harris Johnson: You do drink, don't you Mr. Wade?Ruby Jean: You don't have to answer right away, Joe. You can give it some thought.
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As this movie began I saw the crystal clear colour, sharp focus, and Western setting, and was about to turn it off. Then the young hitch-hiker appeared and I thought. "Oh no! Cutesy-pooh-made-for-TV family schmaltz," but, I was home, sick, on the sofa, and Tom Selleck's usually worth watching so.... The movie hadn't got very far before I realised that I was watching something pretty extraordinary. It was a movie that was inviting me to think, to think about what it means to be a man, and and in particular, a strong man who is facing the alien world of age and declining powers. Tom Selleck's performance showed, to me, a man who, through his relationship with the girl (great actress by the way!) learnt something about life, and drew strength and comfort from the knowledge, whilst she drew greater strength and understanding of the world as a result of being treated like an adult for the first time. If a really cheesy director had been in charge, I can see these words rolling across the screen at the end: "Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods." (Tennyson)