The Last Ride

Name: The Last Ride
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Released: June 22, 2012
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 45
Cast: Fred Dalton Thompson, Henry Thomas, Jesse James, Kaley Cuoco

2012

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Mozark Productions | Release Date: June 22, 2012 | PG-13

Starring: Fred Dalton Thompson, Henry Thomas, Jesse James, Kaley Cuoco

Summary: He called himself Luke the Drifter. He pioneered, and pretty much invented what we know today as country music. At the peak of his career, he was acknowledged to be the greatest singer-songwriter in American history. But after a meteoric rise to record and radio super-stardom in the late 1940's, the man had made a train wreck of his life.He called himself Luke the Drifter. He pioneered, and pretty much invented what we know today as country music. At the peak of his career, he was acknowledged to be the greatest singer-songwriter in American history. But after a meteoric rise to record and radio super-stardom in the late 1940's, the man had made a train wreck of his life. Drugs, alcohol, and a hair-trigger temper had ended two marriages, ruined a host of friendships and made the tortured genius a virtual untouchable in the music business. So at the end of 1952, Hank Williams gathered what was left of his physical strength to make things right, and begin the long road back. He booked New Years shows in West Virginia and Ohio, and hired a local kid who didn't even own a radio, much less know who this legend was, to drive him there from Montgomery Alabama. No one else wanted the job. He never got there. Somewhere on that last highway, the country music legend passed away on New Year's Day, 1953, in the back of his powder blue Cadillac, carrying only his guitar and a notebook full of unfinished songs. He was 29. Inspired by the mysterious final days Hank Williams' mercurial life, The Last Ride is the story of that final drive through the bleak Appalachian countryside of 1950's America. A lonely two-man odyssey; a boy coming of age, and a man leaving this world way before his time, a victim of his own abuses. (Mozark Productions)… Expand

Director: Harry Thomason

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Music

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 102 min

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Rex Reed

Jun 19, 2012

It's a fascinating film that I enjoyed thoroughly. Read full review

Kerry Lengel

Jul 26, 2012

Unlike, say, Val Kilmer's Jim Morrison in "The Doors," Thomas makes no attempt to create a convincing facsimile of Hank Williams, which is just as well, since he bears little resemblance to the sinewy singer. Read full review

Mark Holcomb

Jun 19, 2012

It portrays Williams in a generally sympathetic light without whitewashing his vice-loving, belligerent ways or mythologizing them in a bid for postmortem psychoanalysis. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Jun 21, 2012

This one is for Hank Williams fanatics only, and Mr. Thomas puts a dark and subtle sheen on a disappointingly watery script. Cover versions of Williams's songs - several sung by his daughter, Jett - remind us why he mattered, even as the movie fails to do the same. Read full review

Mark Olsen

Jun 28, 2012

Dramatically thin, formally uninspired and thematically weak, The Last Ride really goes nowhere. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Jun 21, 2012

Thomas offers particularly fine work, but the underwritten script, which relies too much on sentimentality, gives him little to do. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Jun 19, 2012

A typical wax-museum reproduction of the American South in which every detail is Southern in bold all caps, and not a single scene over the course of the film's 102 minutes rings true. Read full review

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