Movie #1059 "The Longest Ride" was movie no. 3 on the plane coming home and I loved it --- I know it is based on a Nicholas Sparks' book, but so was "The Notebook" and this is a close second to that (and it doesn't have Ryan Gosling). And even though the Alzheimer part isn't here, Alan Alda plays a man dying and his story is a weeper from the get go --- here I am sitting in the plane crying into what little kleenex I have on me while I watched his story play out. It seems all the actors have pedigree here ---- all except the two leads, Alan Alda and Britt Robertson (I love this girl!) I think the young man is clint Eastwood's son, and the two people playing Alda and his wife at a younger age are products of Walter Huston and Charlie Chaplin, in some way. Pretty cool to see the next generation take over. The story has a little bit of everything --- it covers the bull bucking competition world that the young man inhabits, along with the art world that the girl works in. Then the story within the story involves a family that moves to America from Germany because they are jewish in the early 40s. That story involves WWII post traumatic problems (him) and how teachers touch lives of students (his wife)........and all these stories come together to make quite a statement about how we have to sacrifice for love and how we continually redefine ourselves in this ever changing world. I recommend it, even though you might not like Sparks' stuff. This was a good one.
The Longest Ride -- I would give this 4 stars out of 5
2015Rated PG-13128 mins
Told via concurrent stories that ultimately converge, this adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel follows an old man consoled by reminiscences of his late wife as he's trapped after a car crash, and a young couple falling in love in a nearby town.
- Genre:
- Drama
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