A Journey Through Hard Miles with Matthew Modine Actor and avid cyclist Matthew Modine stars in the compelling film, Hard Miles. Directed by R.J. Daniel Hanna, the movie showcases a tumultuous yet transformative cycling journey led by Modine’s character, a teacher-coach who guides male juvenile offenders from a correctional residential school in Colorado on a ride to the Grand Canyon. This film draws from true events, plunging into the redemptive power of sports amidst student and mentor struggles. The character Modine depicts, Greg Townsend, combats his inner demons while confronting the volatile environment of his workplace. The Redemption Ride Taking
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- 4/24/2024
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
by Chad Kennerk
Jackson Kelly, Damien Diaz, and Zachary T. Robbins in Hard Miles. All images courtesy of Blue Fox Entertainment / Pensé Productions
Directed by Academy Nicholl Fellow R.J. Daniel Hanna and co-written by Hanna and producer Christian Sander, Hard Miles highlights the vast landscape of the American West and the depth of the human spirit. Handsomely shot on location across the Sierra Nevada, the Navajo Nation, Utah, Colorado, and Grand Canyon National Park, Hard Miles tells the uplifting true story of Coloradan Greg Townsend and Rite of Passage’s Ridge View Academy bicycling team. In the film, social worker Greg Townsend (Matthew Modine) assembles a motley crew of troubled teens for a (nearly) 1,000-mile transformative bike ride from Denver to the Grand Canyon. Along with the reasoned judgement of fellow social worker Haddie (Cynthia Kaye McWilliams), Townsend leads the boys on a cross-country journey that challenges them to discover...
Jackson Kelly, Damien Diaz, and Zachary T. Robbins in Hard Miles. All images courtesy of Blue Fox Entertainment / Pensé Productions
Directed by Academy Nicholl Fellow R.J. Daniel Hanna and co-written by Hanna and producer Christian Sander, Hard Miles highlights the vast landscape of the American West and the depth of the human spirit. Handsomely shot on location across the Sierra Nevada, the Navajo Nation, Utah, Colorado, and Grand Canyon National Park, Hard Miles tells the uplifting true story of Coloradan Greg Townsend and Rite of Passage’s Ridge View Academy bicycling team. In the film, social worker Greg Townsend (Matthew Modine) assembles a motley crew of troubled teens for a (nearly) 1,000-mile transformative bike ride from Denver to the Grand Canyon. Along with the reasoned judgement of fellow social worker Haddie (Cynthia Kaye McWilliams), Townsend leads the boys on a cross-country journey that challenges them to discover...
- 4/19/2024
- by Chad Kennerk
- Film Review Daily
Nathan Zellner and David Zellner’s Sasquatch Sunset is stomping into circa 850 theaters this weekend after debuting in 9 with a solid opening for a film many could find weird. A tribe of Sasquatch, possibly the last of their kind, live and love in the woods of northern California, where it was shot.
“We are taking Bigfoot to America. We have high hopes that the broader market will embrace the movie,” says Kyle Davies of distributor Bleecker Street, calling it “a very different” kind of movie and “a bit of an unknown.”
“It’s a wildcard.”
Marketing was mainly through social activations. “I wouldn’t call it traditional marketing. It doesn’t really fit in that box,” Davies adds. The Sasquatch standees in theaters are fun. And Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar is displaying a baby Sasquatch sitting in a glass case with umbilical cord and placenta.
This is “a polarizing film.
“We are taking Bigfoot to America. We have high hopes that the broader market will embrace the movie,” says Kyle Davies of distributor Bleecker Street, calling it “a very different” kind of movie and “a bit of an unknown.”
“It’s a wildcard.”
Marketing was mainly through social activations. “I wouldn’t call it traditional marketing. It doesn’t really fit in that box,” Davies adds. The Sasquatch standees in theaters are fun. And Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar is displaying a baby Sasquatch sitting in a glass case with umbilical cord and placenta.
This is “a polarizing film.
- 4/19/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
A grueling two-pedal route to the Grand Canyon just might provide the course-correction male juvenile offenders need in “Hard Miles.” With Matthew Modine as their teacher-coach, this fact-inspired tale covers familiar redemptive sports drama terrain. But it’s traveled with affectingly understated assurance by director R.J. Daniel Hanna (“Miss Virginia”) and a strong cast, making for a satisfying scenic ride that picked up several festival audience awards last year.
In a film loosely based on the life and work of his character’s offscreen namesake, Modine plays avid cyclist Greg Townsend, welding instructor at a medium-security correctional residential school in Colorado. That job environment is no picnic, given volatile students who can go from bantering to insults to fistfights in a flash. Plus he’s got his own demons to wrestle with — there are flashbacks to an abused childhood, and phone calls from an incarcerated brother keep urging Greg to...
In a film loosely based on the life and work of his character’s offscreen namesake, Modine plays avid cyclist Greg Townsend, welding instructor at a medium-security correctional residential school in Colorado. That job environment is no picnic, given volatile students who can go from bantering to insults to fistfights in a flash. Plus he’s got his own demons to wrestle with — there are flashbacks to an abused childhood, and phone calls from an incarcerated brother keep urging Greg to...
- 4/18/2024
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
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