SummaryIn search of a better life for her family and desperate to escape her tumultuous relationship, Christina (Anna Paquin) hastily moves to Florida and enters the dangerous world of the underground drug scene. She quickly learns that dealing drugs at the height of South Florida’s smuggling heyday has its price. As law enforcement closes in on Christi... Read More
Directed By:Shana Betz
Written By:Shana Betz
Free Ride
Metascore
Mixed or Average
41
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
41
11% Positive
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67% Mixed
6 Reviews
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22% Negative
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2 Reviews
Jan 9, 2014
70
Free Ride offers an unsettling vision of a demimonde whose inhabitants live with the reality that there may be no tomorrow.
Jan 9, 2014
50
The result, while sincere and nicely evoked, feels choppy, familiar and, despite the script's heavily stacked deck — and a few harrowing episodes — lacks sufficient momentum.
Nov 12, 2013
50
The script’s autobiographical roots tend to substitute for a well-constructed dramatic throughline, giving the film an open-endedness that feels more dismissive than ambivalent.
Jan 10, 2014
40
On the bright side, the charismatic Liberato is one to watch. And de Matteo (“The Sopranos”) brings a crucial jolt of assertive energy. Both seem to be in another, more exciting movie entirely.
Jan 8, 2014
40
It’s in these parent-free gaps that the film becomes less a vehicle for Paquin or helmer Betz (too benign to critically sketch her criminal mother), and more one for Liberato.
Jan 7, 2014
30
The film is content to merely document certain happenings and hope you find them as interesting as it does.
Jan 10, 2014
25
It’s unspeakably depressing to see Anna Paquin playing the mom (of a teenager!), but the pointlessness and mediocrity of the Paquin-produced Free Ride is even more depressing.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
43% Positive
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43% Mixed
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14% Negative
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1 Rating
Jan 13, 2014
10
I thought it was a great movie, considering those who watch it will not know what scenes were cut out completely. The Sarasota, FL bar scene and all in it, cut **** **** Sarasota school scene, where are the girls? Cut out. That is a disapointment for all that participated and waited 2 years to see. The movie needed to last 1/2 hr. longer. But all in all, it was a great production. True story. Cast was great, in person and on screen. I would recommend seeing it. I plan on purchasing. FL **** boy.................
Apr 10, 2019
0
Elle est charmante Anna Paquin mais ce vague téléfilm à la mords-moi-le-noeud ne tient pas la distance : à peine une heure et demi et ça rame comme c'est pas permis... Pourtant, avec un tel sujet (la mère de famille qui va trafiquer en Floride au début des années 70) on aurait pu espérer autre chose qu'un truc aussi plat et bidon. Mais non... Superficiel et convenu, ça ne décolle jamais et le petit budget (on s'en doute) n'excuse pas tout, surtout pas l"indigence d'un scénar aux fraises et une mise en scène de hamster mort. Bref, un navet poussif et tout-à-fait dispensable.
