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Riding in Cars with Boys
Directed by
Penny Marshall
PG-13
2001
2h 12m
Comedy
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Drama
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6.5
49%
66%
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A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
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Cast of Riding in Cars with Boys
Drew Barrymore
Beverly Donofrio
Steve Zahn
Ray Hasek
Adam Garcia
Jason
Brittany Murphy
Fay Forrester
James Woods
Leonard Donofrio
Lorraine Bracco
Teresa Donofrio
Rosie Perez
Shirley Perro
Sara Gilbert
Tina Barr
Peter Facinelli
Tommy Butcher
Mika Boorem
Beverly Donofrio (Age 11)
Vincent Pastore
Uncle Lou
Maryann Urbano
Aunt Ann
Alexia Landeau
Jenny
Kristin Proctor
Cindy
Celine Ordioni
Janet Donofrio (Age 8)
Alissa Dean
Townie Girl #1
Jessica Leshnower
Townie Girl #2
Temple Brooks
Karen
Lauren Lake
Karen's Friend
Desmond Harrington
Bobby
Jordan Gelber
Kevin
Gabriel Carpenter
Sky Barrister
Kevin Thoms
Mark
Vincent De Paul
Linebacker
Joseph Cassese
Linebacker
Kevin O'Rourke
Jail Ward
Susan Forristal
Mrs. Forrester
John Bedford Lloyd
Mr. Forrester
Paz de la Huerta
Phone Call Flirt
Olivia Morgan Scheck
Janet Donofrio (Age 12)
David Moscow
Lizard
Dusty Rizzo
Wedding Singer Tony
Gene Canfield
Pete
Carl Capotorto
Cop #1
Robert Greenhut
Cop #2
Heather Hodder
Donofrio Cousin
Sean Liotine
Zippy
Tracy Reiner
Nurse
Joseph M. Cannizaro
Jason (Newborn)
Noah Hartwick
Jason (Newborn)
Briana Tilden
Jason (Baby)
Skye Arens
Jason (Age 1)
Patrick Salerno
Jason (Age 2)
Robert Salerno
Jason (Age 2)
Logan Arens
Jason (Age 3)
Samantha Reale
Amelia (Age 3)
Wade Mylius
Al
Jon Korkes
Counselor
Cody Arens
Jason (Age 6)
Samantha Lucier
Amelia (Age 6)
Gaetano Lisi
Sweeny's Owner
Marisa Ryan
Janet Donofrio (Age 19)
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Amelia
Logan Lerman
Jason (Age 8)
Skye McCole Bartusiak
Amelia (Age 8)
Michael Linstroth
Dennis Forrester
Sophia Barricelli
Sophia (uncredited)
Shani Bayne Haller
Waitress (uncredited)
J.D. Brookshire
Jerk in Car (uncredited)
Toni D'Antonio
Tied-Dyed Girl (uncredited)
Anna Damergis
Cop's Wife (uncredited)
Gene Gabriel
Make-Out Guy (uncredited)
Jaime Gallagher
Car Passenger (uncredited)
Donna Sue Jahier
Woman in Maternity Ward (uncredited)
Rich Keen
Passer By in Car (uncredited)
Richard Keith
Heald Family Member (uncredited)
Sara Klingebiel
Townie Girl #3 (uncredited)
Randi Rosenholtz
Townie Girl #4 (uncredited)
Peter Austin Noto
Short Order Cook (uncredited)
Dana Segal
Hippie Neighbor (uncredited)
Mario Simone
Student (uncredited)
Marilyn Spanier
Mary (uncredited)
Todd Wall
Nice Guy at Party (uncredited)
Bill Walters
Hippie at Party (uncredited)
Riding in Cars with Boys Ratings & Reviews
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The movie may be based on Beverly Donofrio's memoir of the '60s, but it misses the honesty and grit of the source.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
There's a sort of Hallmark tyranny at work.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Neither Barrymore, who's never played a role this ambitious before, nor director Penny Marshall, who peppers the movie with sight gags and sitcom broadness, ever comes to terms with Beverly.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
It strains for bittersweetness, but a heavy directorial hand (wielding a ladle of schmaltz) tends to overwhelm both the humor and the pathos.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A scattershot affair.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Not a great movie, although Drew Barrymore shines.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Like the life of its subject matter, there is a lot that is wrong with this movie, but there is also something right enough for a bittersweet happy ending.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A film like this is refreshing and startling in the way it cuts loose from formula and shows us confused lives we recognize.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
Beverly is supposed to be a bad girl running with the wrong crowd, but most of the time she seems to be right out of a serioso episode of Laverne & Shirley.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The rough edges of Donofrio's life are either ignored or smoothed away, replaced by broad laughs and easy sentiment.
Observer
Rex Reed
A film with honesty, sincerity and a great big heart.
Slate
David Edelstein
The way that the screenwriter, Morgan Upton Ward, has shaped the material, Donofrio seems a bystander in her own life, a passive (if seething and resentful) victim of forces beyond her control.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Pick something sunshiny next time, Drew. It's nicer to see you smile.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Every scene is coated with Marshall's thumbprints, ultimately connecting into a manhandled, mangled, misshapen whole, its themes written out in thunderously obvious cues.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
You can see how hard it works from top to bottom. But it never quite gets what it wants.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Too much of its reality involves joyless response to circumstantial failure, and instead of being ironic or bittersweet, it's mostly bitter.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
As a flawed but lovably lionhearted woman, Barrymore triumphantly comes of age as an actress.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
For all its characters' weaknesses, it believes in their essential decency and capacity for love -- and for a good deal of the time it makes us believers, too.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
Chalks up victories for Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, director Penny Marshall, and almost its entire supporting cast.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Buried under the miscalculations, the shamelessness, the off-putting and inappropriate broadness are sporadically visible souvenirs of a good project gone bad.
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