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Ride the Eagle

2021 · 89 min

A gentle, low-key comedy about a stalled man thawing out in a mountain cabin, more wry and tender than laugh-out-loud.

Directed by
Trent O'Donnell
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Tagline
Change is in the air.
Overview
When Leif’s estranged mother, Honey dies she leaves him a ‘conditional inheritance’. He has to complete her elaborate to-do list before he gets her cabin in Yosemite. Leif steps into Honey’s wild world as the mother he never really knew tries to make amends from beyond the grave.

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Directed by
Trent O'Donnell
Genres
Comedy, Drama
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • family
  • identity
  • healing
  • love
Places
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour6
Realism7
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight6

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Trent O'Donnell
Written by
Jake Johnson, Trent O'Donnell
Starring
Jake Johnson, Susan Sarandon, D'Arcy Carden, J.K. Simmons, Luis Fernandez-Gil, Cleo King, Eric Edelstein, Billy Bungeroth
Music
Jeff Cardoni
Cinematography
Judd Overton
Runtime
89 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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