Riding in Cars with Boys

Oct 19, 2001

2h 12m

★ 6.7

She did everything wrong, but got everything right.

Overview

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Gracie Films

Columbia Pictures

Parkway Productions

Riding in Cars with Boys Trailers

Cast

Beverly Donofrio

Drew Barrymore

Ray Hasek

Steve Zahn

Jason

Adam Garcia

Fay Forrester

Brittany Murphy

Leonard Donofrio

James Woods

Teresa Donofrio

Lorraine Bracco

Shirley Perro

Rosie Perez

Tina Barr

Sara Gilbert

Tommy Butcher

Peter Facinelli

Beverly Donofrio (Age 11)

Mika Boorem

Uncle Lou

Vincent Pastore

Aunt Ann

Maryann Urbano

The wife of an alcoholic and mother of four (Toula Stathopoulou) is a factory worker in Corfu at the beginning of the 20th century. A fallen noble man who has fallen on hard times (Stratis Tsopanellis) wants to marry her eldest daughter (Anny Loulou) and take advantage of the family's meager earnings. He kidnaps the not-unwilling girl, and argues with her mother about the dowry. But the girl refuses to marry him when she wakes up to the fact that he is only looking out for his own interests. She then decides to start working in order to earn money to raise the child she is expecting. The film is an adaptation of the novel 'For Honor and Money' by Konstantinos Theotokis.

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