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Riding in Cars with Boys
Beverly loves boys, but she knows her limits: nothing below the waist (hers), if she doesn`t know the boy. Ray, however, a sweet-natured but shiftless young man is the exception to her rule and shortly after meeting him she ends up pregnant--at age f...
Beverly loves boys, but she knows her limits: nothing below the waist (hers), if she doesn`t know the boy. Ray, however, a sweet-natured but shiftless young man is the exception to her rule and shortly after meeting him she ends up pregnant--at age fifteen. At the wedding insisted upon by her disappointed father, Bev finds out her best friend is also pregnant, and the two console each other for the youth they`ve lost. RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS is a true story based on the autobiography by Beverly Donofrio about her youthful days of revelry, rebellion, and teenage motherhood. Drew Barrymore is credible as an Italian-American girl who`s far too smart to be stuck where she is in life, but it`s Steve Zahn (THAT THING YOU DO, HAPPY, TEXAS) who steals the show in a long-overdue starring turn, with his heartfelt portrayal of a lost little boy who never finds his way to manhood. James Woods is Donofrio`s alienated father. And Lorraine Bracco is her supportive, long-suffering mother who looks after the house, Bev`s son Jason, and Ray, while Bev desperately tries for her GED and a scholarship to NYU. It`s Bev`s drive and unflagging ambition--and Penny Marshall`s usual surehanded direction--that turn her hardship into the triumph of survival. Eventually, she realizes her own dreams, and her son`s.
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