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Riding the Bullet

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United States, Germany, Canada · 2004
1h 38m
Director Mick Garris
Starring Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Cliff Robertson, Barbara Hershey
Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller

Set in 1969, Alan Parker (Jackson) is a young artist, studying at the University of Maine. He becomes obsessed with death, and believing he is losing his girlfriend, Jessica (Christensen), he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him, and he recovers. He receives news that his mother is dying and decides to hitchhike, in an attempt to reach his dying mom.

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Variety by

A ponderous, incoherent horror mishmash that turns King's short story into utter nonsense.

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L.A. Weekly by Chuck Wilson

Writer-director Mick Garris has a real feeling for the horror master's melancholy worldview - love is loss - but he's too reverent toward the original story, the ending of which, both on the page and, now, on the screen, lands with an overly elegiac thud.

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Dallas Observer by Luke Y. Thompson

Imagine a feature-length version of the "Large Marge" sequence from "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and you won't be too far off, only that was scarier.

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