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Synopsis

After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

Cast

  • Brady Jandreau
  • Tim Jandreau
  • Lilly Jandreau
  • Lane Scott
  • Cat Clifford
  • Derrick Janis
  • Tanner Langdeau
  • Terri Dawn Pourier

Atom User Reviews

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Great story! Shows how people overcome obstacles.

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Metacritic

40
Jan 18, 2024

The failure of The Rider to see Brady in his intellectual and experiential specificity, to render him as interesting as the dramatic shell in which Zhao places him, is a failure of directorial imagination.

Richard Brody
The New Yorker
100
May 9, 2018

The Rider is a docudrama as elegy, a slice of rodeo realism that both romanticizes and demythologizes the Cowboy Way in a corner of America where that still means something.

Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
75
Apr 18, 2018

The movie is a rendering of the internal landscape of a contemporary cowboy, with the complexities and ambiguities left intact. It’s a kind of parable, delivered in a manner that has nothing to do with preaching.

Metacritic review by Walter Addiego
Walter Addiego
San Francisco Chronicle