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Genres:
Action & Adventure
Language:
English
Running time:
1:38:55
Partner rating:
NO RATING
Released:

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. ChloË Grace Moretz
  2. Blake Lively Glenda
  3. Alec Baldwin Beau
  4. Eddie Redmayne Eddie
  5. Juliette Lewis Tammy McMullen
  6. Chloe Moretz Luli McMullen
  7. Rory Culkin Clement
  8. Anson Mount Nick McMullen
  9. Ray McKinnon Lloyd

Directors

  1. Derick Martini

Producers

  1. Jonathan Cornick
  2. Steven Siebert
  3. Christian Taylor
  4. Jon Cornick
  5. Charles de Portes

Hick


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Lymelife writer/co-director Derick Martini adapts Andrea Portes' 2007 coming-of-age novel about a young Nebraska girl who runs away from home, and learns that life on the road has its fair share of danger. Luli (Chloe Moretz) has just turned 13. Bestowed a Smith & Wesson .45 at her birthday party in a local watering hole, the young girl quickly decides that she has had enough of her volatile parents' drinking and bickering, and decides it's hi... Lymelife writer/co-director Derick Martini adapts Andrea Portes' 2007 coming-of-age novel about a young Nebraska girl who runs away from home, and learns that life on the road has its fair share of danger. Luli (Chloe Moretz) has just turned 13. Bestowed a Smith & Wesson .45 at her birthday party in a local watering hole, the young girl quickly decides that she has had enough of her volatile parents' drinking and bickering, and decides it's high time to strike out on her own. Soon offered a lift by Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), a young cowboy with a prominent limp and a full tank of gas, Luli quickly finds herself back on the side of the road after their conversation turns combative. Shortly thereafter, the young traveler has a chance run-in with Glenda (Blake Lively), a pretty con artist who talks Luli into helping her rob a gas station, and takes her under her wing en route to meet Lloyd (Ray McKinnon), a respected local contractor but volatile alcoholic. Though a subsequent brush with Eddie finds Luli's journey taking an unexpectedly dark turn, the resilient adolescent still holds out hope that there's a better life for her somewhere out there on the open road.
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Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'rotten' by Rotten Tomatoes

5%Tomatometer score: 5% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Positive review
    Stephen Fitzpatrick, The Australian Hick is worth the effort -- and it does have some genuinely witty writing. Full review External link
  2. Negative review
    Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader Ambles back and forth between tomfoolery and strained seriousness. Full review External link
  3. Negative review
    Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times It contains some effective performances, it does a good job of evoking bereft and empty landscapes, but what is it for? Has she learned anything? Have we? Full review External link
  4. Negative review
    James Berardinelli, ReelViews Hick wants to come across as trippy and offbeat but its bizarre, surreal approach is more off-putting than effective. Full review External link
  5. Negative review
    Lou Lumenick, New York Post A smarmy little road movie about a Southern teenage girl losing her innocence the hard way during the Reagan era. Full review External link
  6. Negative review
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times Mostly plays like some creepy-perv fantasia looking for mileage from the mature-beyond-her-years presence of young star Chlo Grace Moretz. Full review External link

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