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Riding the Bullet
2004
· Movie
· 98 min
F
MEANRANK
43/100
Every rating
23–62
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 23, highest is Kinopoisk on 62. Critics average 23, everyone else 47.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. Believing he is losing his girlfriend, he tries to commit suicide on his birthday but his friends manage to stop him. He receives news that his mother has had a stroke and decides to hitchhike to visit her at the hospital.
Details
- Director
- Mick Garris
- Writer
- Mick Garris
- Based on
- a work by Stephen King
- Released
- 15 October 2004
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $5.0M
- Box office
- $264.5K
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