I had a Redbox discount code so I picked this DVD for the evening. I like the actors so I figured it would be a good viewing experience.
It was an interesting viewing experience. During the middle it got a bit slow-moving, so I used that neat feature of my player, push a button and advance 15 seconds. Watch 5 seconds, advance 15 seconds. That way 20 minutes of movie goes by in 5 minutes and you don't miss anything!
Chloë Grace Moretz, about 13 or 14 during filming, plays just turning 13 Luli McMullen. Her mom and dad aren't much in the way of parents, and Luli is at the "coming-of" age where she wants a say in how her life turns out. Not too different from a whole host of other such stories on film. (I recently saw 'Mouth to Mouth' with Ellen Page, similar theme.)
So Luli sees something about Las Vegas and she decides that is where she will go, leaving her home in Nebraska, with no idea what she will do once she gets there.
She hitches a ride with Eddie Redmayne as Eddie Kreezer, a limping one-time cowboy. They don't do so well together, she gets let out on the road, but they meet up again in unlikely circumstances. After she gets a ride with grifter Blake Lively as Glenda .
For me the situations and dialog were seldom believable. It just didn't seem like a plausible story.
It was an interesting viewing experience. During the middle it got a bit slow-moving, so I used that neat feature of my player, push a button and advance 15 seconds. Watch 5 seconds, advance 15 seconds. That way 20 minutes of movie goes by in 5 minutes and you don't miss anything!
Chloë Grace Moretz, about 13 or 14 during filming, plays just turning 13 Luli McMullen. Her mom and dad aren't much in the way of parents, and Luli is at the "coming-of" age where she wants a say in how her life turns out. Not too different from a whole host of other such stories on film. (I recently saw 'Mouth to Mouth' with Ellen Page, similar theme.)
So Luli sees something about Las Vegas and she decides that is where she will go, leaving her home in Nebraska, with no idea what she will do once she gets there.
She hitches a ride with Eddie Redmayne as Eddie Kreezer, a limping one-time cowboy. They don't do so well together, she gets let out on the road, but they meet up again in unlikely circumstances. After she gets a ride with grifter Blake Lively as Glenda .
For me the situations and dialog were seldom believable. It just didn't seem like a plausible story.