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The Rider

  • 20172017
  • RR
  • 1h 44m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
19K
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4,039
Brady Jandreau in The Rider (2017)
After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
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After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
19K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
6,109
4,039
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    • Director
      • Chloé Zhao
    • Writer
      • Chloé Zhao
    • Stars
      • Brady Jandreau
      • Mooney
      • Tim Jandreau
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    • Director
      • Chloé Zhao
    • Writer
      • Chloé Zhao
    • Stars
      • Brady Jandreau
      • Mooney
      • Tim Jandreau
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    • 130User reviews
    • 170Critic reviews
    • 92Metascore
    • Awards
      • 25 wins & 56 nominations

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    Brady Jandreau
    Brady Jandreau
    • Brady Blackburn
    Mooney
    • Gus
    Tim Jandreau
    Tim Jandreau
    • Wayne Blackburn
    Lilly Jandreau
    Lilly Jandreau
    • Lilly Blackburn
    Leroy Pourier
    • Frank
    Cat Clifford
    Cat Clifford
    • Cat Clifford
    Tanner Langdeau
    • Tanner Langdeau
    James Calhoon
    • James Calhoon
    Lane Scott
    Lane Scott
    • Lane Scott
    Cameron Wright
    • Rodeo Cowboy #1
    Jordon Slick Phelps
    • Rodeo Cowboy #2
    Donnie Whirlwind Horse
    • Rodeo Cowboy #3
    Terri Dawn Pourier
    Terri Dawn Pourier
    • Terri Dawn
    • (as Terri Dawn Jandreau)
    Allen Reddy
    • Bill
    • (as Alan Reddy)
    Greg Barber
    • Bar Owner
    Kevin Hunter
    • Bar Patron #1
    Marshall Byrne
    • Bar Patron #2
    Frank Steele
    • Miles
    • Director
      • Chloé Zhao
    • Writer
      • Chloé Zhao
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    • Trivia
      Writer and director Chloé Zhao first met Brady Jandreau during her research for her earlier film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015). She visited the ranch where Jandreau was working and he was teaching her how to ride a horse. She wanted to put him in one of her films, and when he had the accident that left him with life changing head injuries, she decided to base the script for her next film on his story.
    • Quotes

      Brady Blackburn: If any animal around here got hurt like I did, they'd have to be put down

    • Connections
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    User reviews130

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    Moving, brilliantly directed Rodeo film as metaphor of the human condition
    I was infatuated back in 1971/72 with Hollywood' brief but productive dalliance with the Rodeo film genre, of which Steve Ihnat's "The Honkers" was my favorite alongside the far-better publicized "Junior Bonner", "When the Legends Die" (the closest one to "The Rider") and "J.W. Coop". Chinese director Chloe Zhao takes a neo-Realist stab at the format with this affecting, strong and experimental film.

    Unlike Clint Eastwood's unsuccessful recent film where he had the American heroes of the French railway terrorist incident play themselves on screen, Chloe has recruited real-life Native Americans from the South Dakota rodeo milieu to play fictional characters close enough to their real-life personae to establish an immediate and realistic connection. Rodeo has long been a metaphor for Western movie themes, especially those end of an era notions favored by Western masters Sam Peckinpah and John Ford, and here Zhao takes the concept one step further by having these modern day cowboys personified by Native Americans of the Lakota tribe whose culture was effectively destroyed by us "Americans", including the cowboys of old.

    The central protagonist Brady has a face and utterly stoic demeanor the camera loves - a Bronson figure who happens to have the handsome features of a Channing Tatum, but never hitting a false note. His dilemma recalls the Greek myth of Sysiphus, rolling that boulder up the hill only to have it roll back down endlessly, accomplishing nothing. But the difference here is that although he cannot recover from the rodeo accident which renders him unfit to ride anymore (actually, in real-life Brady was injured in a car accident, not from rodeo performance) he is presented as a brilliant horse whisperer, adding great depth and panache to the movie.

    His best friend Lance, crippled from rodeo, offers the moving sentimentality that Chloe otherwise scrupulously avoids in her filmmaking, using spectacular visual imagery to give the movie a strength that mere documentary technique wouldn't allow. Subsidiary characters like Brady's autistic sister and stern, incapable of expressing his love dad, are potent real-life people rather than Hollywood constructs, though many a character actor would leap at the chance to play these roles.

    As I watched the movie I thought of many Sports-related pictures that had covered similar ground, perhaps more intellectually and that achieved classic status. Certainly Brando in Kazan's "On the Waterfront" as the boxer who "coulda been a contender" presents a mirror image to Brady's hero, though their acting styles are diametrically opposed. Kurosawa's "Dersu Uzala" is the most brilliant of these movies (but not about sports) of a strong spirit overcoming physical hardship, and I was somewhat surprised that director Zhao chose to make the character's Native American background so subtle in terms of her screenplay, as opposed to Kurosawa in a Russian movie emphasizing the outsider nature of Dersu the Siberian hunter from an ethnic minority. Perhaps it is the lack of a stronger, more universal theme as developed in the Kazan and Kurosawa films that prevents "The Rider" from ascending to all-time classic status. But it is still a wonderful movie.
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    • Release date
      • April 13, 2018 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Altitude Film Entertainment (United Kingdom)
      • Les Films du Losange (France)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Sioux
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Наїзник
    • Filming locations
      • Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, USA
    • Production companies
      • Caviar
      • Highwayman Films
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $2,419,031
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $42,244
      • Apr 15, 2018
    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,436,124
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 44 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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