Drama · Western
The Rider
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.
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Brady Jandreau
Brady Blackburn
Tim Jandreau
Wayne Blackburn
Lilly Jandreau
Lilly Blackburn
Cat Clifford
Cat Clifford
Terri Dawn Pourier
Terri Dawn Pourier
Lane Scott
Lane Scott
Tanner Langdeau
Tanner Langdeau
James Calhoon
James Calhoon
Directed by
Chloé Zhao
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Stephen Campbell
8/105/26/2019
**_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 partly a deconstruction of the iconography of the American frontier, _The Rider_ is the second film from Chinese-American writer/director Chloé Zhao, and is intimately tied to her debut, _Songs My Brothe
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