The Rider

Director: Chloé Zhao
Cast: Brady Jandreau , Tim Jandreau , Lilly Jandreau, Lane Scott, Cat Clifford
Time: 104 min
Country: US
Year: 2017
Language: English

The Rider’s hard-hitting drama is only made more effective through writer-director Chloé Zhao’s use of untrained actors to tell the movie’s fact-based tale. Based on his true story, The Rider stars breakout Brady Jandreau as a once rising star of the rodeo circuit warned that his competition days are over after a tragic riding accident. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. Filmed in South Dakota.