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The Last Ride
The movie centers around the final days of Hank Williams' life when he hires a local kid to drive him through the Appalachian countryside for his New Year's Eve shows in West Virginia and Ohio.
19 August 1942, Sheffield, Alabama, USA
27 July 1961, Conway, Arkansas, USA
9 March 1962, Russellville, Arkansas, USA
9 July 1936, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
30 November 1985, Camarillo, California, USA
30 May 1951, Dallas, Texas, USA
9 March 1955, Malvern, Arkansas, USA
August 31, 2012
The Last Ride squanders its potential, much like its tragic subject.
June 18, 2012
A typical wax-museum reproduction of the American South in which every detail is Southern in bold all caps, and not a single scene over the course of the film's 102 minutes rings true.
June 29, 2012
Dramatically thin, formally uninspired and thematically weak, "The Last Ride" really goes nowhere.
June 17, 2013
A romantic "what-if" version of the story, interesting only as a cultural artifact...dramatically inert
November 25, 2011
... an evocation of an era, of a lost-highway America evidenced today only in the roadside ruins of old service stations and downtown hotels, of a South before it was swamped by leveling and homogenizing waves of globalization and television.
August 23, 2012
Alas, "The Last Ride" doesn't deliver much insight into Williams or the lifestyle that killed him.
June 21, 2012
Alabama teen drives country-music star Hank Williams on his fatal trip to a concert in West Virginia. Squeaky-clean period tale is well-mounted but thin.
June 22, 2012
Bearing all the hallmarks of a small-budget labor of love, The Last Ride is a leisurely paced but modestly engaging road trip that gets considerable mileage from the byplay between its two lead characters.
August 23, 2012
The Last Ride doesn't give us a complete picture of Hank Williams. But it does ably illustrate the final days of his life.
November 01, 2012
The 1952 El Dorado represents Williams' success as a songwriter and country singer, but it also serves as his refuge from an increasingly chaotic life.
July 26, 2012
James does a fine job of portraying a naïve youth whose eyes slowly open to glimpse both the pleasures and the pain of living.