The Rider

2018 • 1h 43m •

Drama Western

MOVIEVIBE Rating

★ 7.3/10

575 reviews

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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 crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.

Top Billed Cast

Brady Jandreau

Brady Blackburn

Tim Jandreau

Wayne Blackburn

Lilly Jandreau

Lilly Blackburn

Cat Clifford

Terri Dawn Pourier

Lane Scott

Tanner Langdeau

James Calhoon

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

S Stephen Campbell Verified TMDB Critic

2019-05-26

**_Honest, raw, and respectful_**

> _I never really had a choice to be a cowboy. It was just in my blood. It was the way my family lived; grew up on horses my whole life. I would ride a horse all by myself when I was about a year-and-a-half. I don't really know anything else. I wouldn't have it any other way._

- Brady Jandreau; "Interview: Rodeo cowboy Brady Jandreau talks life before and after The Rider" (Sari Cohen); _Axs.com_ (August 31, 2018)

Partly an elegy for a dissipating way of life, partly an examination of the self-destructive components of contemporary masculinity, and par...