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Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

★ 6.7 · 479 ratings on TMDB

She did everything wrong, but got everything right.

Riding in Cars with Boys poster★ 6.7

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

DirectorPenny Marshall
CastAdam Garcia, Brittany Murphy, Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Lorraine Bracco, Mika Boorem
GenresComedy, Drama
The emergence reading

Riding in Cars with Boys keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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