Free Ride

Movie Title--  Free Ride

Release Year--  2013

Running Time--  1 Hour and 26 Minutes

Director--  Shana Betz

Cast--  Anna Paquin, Liana Liberato, Ava Acres, Drea de Matteo, Dani Garcia, Cam Gigandet, Brit Morgan

A mother in an abusive relationship moves her two daughters to Florida in the 1970's to make a better life for them and becomes a drug trafficker.

Christina (Anna Paquin) takes her two daughters, MJ (Liana Liberato) and Shell (Ava Acres) to Florida to start a new life after she has taken enough abuse from of her husband.  She moves into a hotel with her friend Sandy (Drea de Matteo), who gets her a job for her "Bossman" cleaning a house with the promise to move up if she does well.  It doesn't take long for Christina to get noticed and Sandy takes her to meet the "Bossman", who promotes her to a drug trafficker.  He moves her into a new home and gifts her children with a horse but they soon discover the reason for the gift is so the drugs can be hidden in the barn.  Christina then has to consider her new life and how best to keep her children safe.

The description that I gave for the film is a little vague but it is really the most important thing to know about this film.  I will say that this film was not my favorite but it really isn't one of the worse films I have seen.  Will I sit through it again?  No but it was okay enough to watch once.  

To me the story felt long and drawn out.  There were places the script could have been scrapped but the problem with that would have been it would have made the film too short, so I believe that some of the unnecessary parts were kept in just to give the film some length.  Some of it was kind of boring; it almost seemed like the high points were really high and the low points were really low with no real give in between.

If you are an Anna Paquin fan, I say go ahead and see this film, otherwise, this may be one to just skip.  What ever choice you make, Don't Forget the Popcorn!