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The Last Ride

Drama, Music - 2012
The Last Ride
5.8
47%
45
At the end of 1952, with the best years of his career behind him, country music legend Hank Williams hires a local kid to drive him through the Appalachian countryside for a pair of New Years shows in West Virginia and Ohio.
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Details

Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
102 min
Release date:
22 Jun 2012
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$16,270
Awards:
N/A

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Alas, "The Last Ride" doesn't deliver much insight into Williams or the lifestyle that killed him.
– Paul de Barros,
Seattle Times,
23 Aug 2012
fresh:
The Last Ride doesn't give us a complete picture of Hank Williams. But it does ably illustrate the final days of his life.
– Mario Tarradell,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Aug 2012
fresh:
James does a fine job of portraying a naive youth whose eyes slowly open to glimpse both the pleasures and the pain of living.
– Kerry Lengel,
Arizona Republic,
26 Jul 2012
rotten:
Dramatically thin, formally uninspired and thematically weak, "The Last Ride" really goes nowhere.
– Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jun 2012
fresh:
Bearing all the hallmarks of a small-budget labor of love, The Last Ride is a leisurely paced but modestly engaging road trip that gets considerable mileage from the byplay between its two lead characters.
– Joe Leydon,
Variety,
22 Jun 2012
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