Based on a true story about the early days of stock-car racing. A story of love in the time of moonshine as three of stock car racing's earliest heroes come of age to find escape from ...
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Title: Red Dirt Rising (2014)
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Cast
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| Brad Yoder | ... | Jimmie Lewallen | |
| Burgess Jenkins | ... | Bill Blair | |
| R. Keith Harris | ... | Mr. Nance | |
| Ashlee Payne | ... | Carrie | |
| Quentin Kerr | ... | Fred Harb | |
| Bill Oberst Jr. | ... | Buck | |
| Cindy Hogan | ... | Ellie Lewallen | |
| Brett Rice | ... | Roy Lewallen | |
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Stephanie Northrup | ... | Lucille |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Keith Barber | ... | Brack | |
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Austin Carty | ... | Curtis Turner |
| Zac Gardner | ... | Trevor | |
| Don Hartman | ... | Sheriff Beecher | |
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Christopher Hewat | ... | Courier |
| Mark Joy | ... | Mr. Blair | |
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Based on a true story about the early days of stock-car racing. A story of love in the time of moonshine as three of stock car racing's earliest heroes come of age to find escape from life's challenges on the track, ultimately shaping the future of their families and auto racing during the Fighting Forties.
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31 October 2014 (USA) See more »Edit
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$500,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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This movie may have been a great story told; unfortunately it it is dramatically flawed. One cannot feel anything for the characters as their emotions and choices are somehow blurred in the sequence of scenes without transitions. In one scene the boys are talking, in the next some guy is driving a tractor in the grassy field. We must then do guesswork to realize that it's the dad of one of them that made them a race track. This is only one example of many.
The WWII war scenes are simply unbearable and bordering on the ridiculous. Just few of them, though, which helped.
The soundtrack starts promising since country and Southern music can be so rich with raw feelings and simple harmony; but the music fades away in the sequence of badly connected scenes. The film fails to grasp the atmosphere of the Great Depression and that of the South. To the extent it succeeds -- it is flat and only raises eyebrows.
The dialog is as flat as are the characters, the camera work and the editing. (The best part was that they did not use any profanity.) The movie did not deserve at all the 9 stars it had received in the beginning.