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The Rider (2018)

R 04/13/2018 (US) Drama, Western 1h 43m

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Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.

Chloé Zhao

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Brady Jandreau

Brady Blackburn
Tim Jandreau

Wayne Blackburn
Lilly Jandreau

Lilly Blackburn
Cat Clifford

Cat Clifford
Terri Dawn Pourier

Terri Dawn Pourier
Lane Scott

Lane Scott
Tanner Langdeau

Tanner Langdeau
James Calhoon

James Calhoon
Derrick Janis

Victor Chasing Hawk
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A review by Stephen Campbell

80%

Written by Stephen Campbell on May 26, 2019

Honest, raw, and respectful

I never really had a choice to be a cowboy. It was just in my blood. It was the way my family lived; grew up on horses my whole life. I would ride a horse all by myself when I was about a year-and-a-half. I don't really know anything else. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Brady Jandreau; "Interview: Rodeo cowboy Brady Jandreau talks life before and after The Rider" (Sari Cohen); Axs.com (August 31, 2018)

Partly an elegy for a dissipating way of life, partly an examination of the self-destructive components of contemporary masculinity, and part... read the rest.

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