Hick (film)
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| Directed by | Derick Martini |
| Produced by | Steven Siebert Christian Taylor Charles DePortes Jonathan Cornick |
| Screenplay by | Andrea Portes |
| Based on |
Hick by Andrea Portes |
| Starring |
Chloë Grace Moretz Eddie Redmayne Blake Lively Ray McKinnon Rory Culkin Juliette Lewis Alec Baldwin |
| Narrated by | Chloë Grace Moretz |
| Music by |
Bob Dylan Larry Campbell |
| Cinematography | Frank Godwin |
| Edited by | Mark Yoshikawa |
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Stone River Productions
Lighthouse Entertainment Taylor Lane Productions |
| Distributed by | Phase 4 Films |
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Running time
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7 million |
Hick is a 2011 comedy-drama film directed by Derick Martini, based on the novel of the same name by Andrea Portes that draws on non-fictional elements. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Eddie Redmayne, Ray McKinnon, Rory Culkin, Juliette Lewis, Blake Lively, and Alec Baldwin. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2011. It had a limited theatrical release on May 11 and is distributed by Phase 4 Films.
In the 1980s, a girl named Luli McMullen (Chloë Grace Moretz) lives an unstable life with her neglectful mother (Juliette Lewis), and alcoholic father (Anson Mount) in a small Nebraska town, where she's derided as a "bar baby" by the other kids. On her 13th birthday, she receives a revolver as a gift. Shortly thereafter, Luli sees a commercial for Las Vegas and decides to run away there. She hitches a ride from Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), an erratic drifter with a damaged leg. They argue and she leaves the car. She eventually convinces another passerby, Glenda (Blake Lively), to give her a ride. They bond after Luli helps Glenda rob a store and spend the night at what is presumably Glenda's trailer behind a bowling alley, where a little boy named Angel also lives and who Glenda seems to take care of on some level. Luli again encounters Eddie that night in the parking lot of the bowling alley.
The next day, Glenda takes Luli to the home of a man named Lloyd (Ray McKinnon), who seems to be Glenda's husband. Luli discovers that Eddie works for Lloyd, and also that Glenda knows Eddie and is quite upset to see him. While Lloyd initially appears friendly, his true mean-spirited, tyrannical nature shows through when he viciously berates Eddie for a perceived mistake (Eddie retaliates by urinating in Lloyd's drink, which goes undetected by Lloyd). Eddie tells Luli that Lloyd and Glenda want to be alone, so he takes her to a bar. Eddie is interrupted while hustling pool by Luli, and when his hustle fails, the man that he was hustling makes a deal with Eddie on terms uncertain to the audience. The man then follows Luli into the ladies room to rape her. She fights him before Eddie comes in and savagely beats the man to death.
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