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Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 105 Fresh: 50  Rotten:55 Average Rating: 5.2/10
 
Consensus: Riding in Cars With Boys suffers from mixing grit and pathos with cuteness and comedy. Ironically, many critics found Zahn's character more compelling and three-dimensional than Barrymore's.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins

Theatrical Release: Oct 19, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $29,601,298

Synopsis: Beverly loves boys, but she knows her limits: nothing below the waist (hers), if she doesn't know the boy. Ray, however, a sweet-natured but shiftless young man is the exception to her rule and shortly after meeting him she ends up pregnant--at age fifteen. At the wedding insisted upon by her... Beverly loves boys, but she knows her limits: nothing below the waist (hers), if she doesn't know the boy. Ray, however, a sweet-natured but shiftless young man is the exception to her rule and shortly after meeting him she ends up pregnant--at age fifteen. At the wedding insisted upon by her disappointed father, Bev finds out her best friend is also pregnant, and the two console each other for the youth they've lost. RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS is a true story based on the autobiography by Beverly Donofrio about her youthful days of revelry, rebellion, and teenage motherhood. Drew Barrymore is credible as an Italian-American girl who's far too smart to be stuck where she is in life, but it's Steve Zahn (THAT THING YOU DO, HAPPY, TEXAS) who steals the show in a long-overdue starring turn, with his heartfelt portrayal of a lost little boy who never finds his way to manhood. James Woods is Donofrio's alienated father. And Lorraine Bracco is her supportive, long-suffering mother who looks after the house, Bev's son Jason, and Ray, while Bev desperately tries for her GED and a scholarship to NYU. It's Bev's drive and unflagging ambition--and Penny Marshall's usual surehanded direction--that turn her hardship into the triumph of survival. Eventually, she realizes her own dreams, and her son's. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, James Woods, Brittany Murphy, Lorraine Bracco

Director: Penny Marshall
Screenwriter: Morgan Ward
Producer: James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Sara Colleton

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Mar 19, 2002

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Don't be fooled by Columbia's heavy marketing, which exploits commercial title and producer James Brook's pedigree, for this humorless chick flick is one of Penny Marshall's worst films, one that even the usually charming Drew Barrymore can't salvage

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We’ve suffered through worse chick flicks throughout the years . . .

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James O'Ehley
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...[Drew Barrymore's] best performance to date...

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Andrea Chase
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should bring Barrymore at least the promise of more interesting scripts through the letterbox.

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Tom Grealis
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Matthew Turner
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Barrymore is a wonder in this role.

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[Beverly] is a memorable character, a flesh-and-blood creation brought to life by an actress just beginning to hit her stride.

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Although well made, this is a depressing film.

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It's an embarrassment, a misguided tearjerker that will only make you cry if you spent good money to see it.

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