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Ride the Eagle
Director: Trent O'Donnell Run Time: 89 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2021
Starring: D'Arcy Carden, J.K. Simmons, Jake Johnson, Luis Fernandez-Gil, Susan Sarandon
Country: United States
Language: English
“balm to the soul”
– Alex Saveliev for Film Threat
About the film:
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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About the filmmakers:
Australian producer, director and screenwriter Trent O’Donnell, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jake Johnson, previously helmed episodes of New Girl, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Good Place, for which he was nominated for a Hugo award, as well as the series Review with Myles Barlow, winner of several Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Comedy. O’Donnell is co-owner of the production company Jungle, and Ride the Eagle is his first feature.
Co-writer, co-producer and lead Jake Johnson was nominated for the 2018 Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in New Girl.
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