THE RIDER:
104 minutes
Friday, June 22 – 7 pm,
Saturday, June 23 – 4 & 8 pm,
Sunday, June 24 – 4 pm,
Wednesday, June 27 – 1:30 & 7 pm,
and Thursday, June 28 – 7 pm.
Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over, after a horse crushes his skull at a rodeo. Back home on the Pine Ridge Reservation, with little desire or alternatives for a different way of life, Brady’s sense of inadequacy mounts as he is unable to ride or rodeo – the essentials of being a cowboy. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Insider’s tip: “The Rider is nothing short of a masterpiece, an elegant work of cinematic poetry that elevates the everyday struggles of real people to the level of high art” (Clint Worthington, Consequence of Sound). Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com, adds: “An account of rodeo riders on a South Dakota reservation, it is so fact-based that it almost qualifies as a documentary. Yet the film’s style, its sense of light and landscape and mood, simultaneously give it the mesmerizing force of the most confident cinematic poetry.” Scott Tobias, Uproxx: “What matters is that it is true.”
THE RIDER has 13 wins and 13 additional nominations for excellence.
THE RIDER is a Metacritic.com “Must See” selection.