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Riding in Cars with Boys

She did everything wrong, but got everything right.

2001★ 6.7 · 4872h 11mDramaComedy

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.

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Cast

Steve Zahn
as Ray Hasek

Drew Barrymore
as Beverly Donofrio

Brittany Murphy
as Fay Forrester

Logan Lerman
as Jason (Age 8)

Lorraine Bracco
as Teresa Donofrio

Maggie Gyllenhaal
as Amelia

James Woods
as Leonard Donofrio

Peter Facinelli
as Tommy Butcher

Desmond Harrington
as Bobby

Sara Gilbert
as Tina Barr

Rosie Perez
as Shirley Perro

Skye McCole Bartusiak
as Amelia (Age 8)

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Release date: 2001-10-19

Budget: $48,000,000

Revenue: $35,700,000

Runtime: 2h 11m

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DramaComedy

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