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Riding in Cars with Boys

Name: Riding in Cars with Boys
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 2001
Duration: 132 min
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Adam Garcia, Brittany Murphy, James Woods

Taste attributes: comedydramaromancebiographyteenslowwholesomerealisticsimpleenclosedemotive & stirringcoming of agecomplex relationshiplove conquers allself destruction/implosiontroubled leads

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"One day can make your life; one day can ruin your life. All life is is four or five big days that change everything."

Boxlist takeExpect a realistic, moving romantic comedy, small-scale rather than epic. Best if you like stories that hit hard.

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

6.8/10

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Pace: Slow, just how this profile likes it
Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it

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Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy

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Synopsis

A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.

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