Release Date: June 22nd, 2012
Director: Harry Thomason
Writers: Dub Cornett, Howard Klausner
Actors: Fred Dalton Thompson, Gary Newton, Henry Thomas, James Hampton, Jennifer Pierce, Jesse James, Kaley Cuoco, Matt Lindahl, Ray McKinnon, Rick Dial, Stephen Tobolowsky, Will Koberg
Genre: Biography, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Official site: www.facebook.com
Studio: Live Bait Entertainment
The final days of Hank Williams.Hank Williams pioneered and pretty much invented what we know today as country music.
enAt the peak of his career, he was acknowledged to be the greatest singer-songwriter in American history. But after a meteoric rise to record and radio super-stardom in the late 1940′s, the man had made a train wreck of his life. Drugs, alcohol, and a hair-trigger temper had ended two marriages, ruined a host of friendships and made the tortured genius a virtual untouchable in the music business. So at the end of 1952, Hank Williams gathered what was left of his physical strength to make things right, and begin the long road back. He booked New Years shows in West Virginia and Ohio, and hired a local kid who didn’t even own a radio, much less know who this legend was, to drive him there from Montgomery Alabama.
Inspired by the mysterious final days Hank Williams’ mercurial life, The Last Ride is the story of that final drive through the bleak Appalachian countryside of 1950′s America. A lonely two-man odyssey; a boy coming of age, and a man leaving this world way before his time, a victim of his own abuses.
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