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Hank Williams pioneered and pretty much invented what we know today as country music. At 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 Year's 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.
Original Release
06/22/2012
US Release
06/22/2012
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Jesse James | Silas |
Stephen Tobolowsky | Ray |
Ray McKinnon | Stan |
Henry Thomas | Mr. Wells / Hank Williams / "Mr. Wells" / Luke |
Natalie Canerday | Nurse |
Danny Thomason | Dr. Stoneacre |
Lawrence Hamilton | Street Musician |
Graham Gordy | Attendant |
Bill Butler | Bellman |
Fred Thompson | O'Keefe |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jesse James | Silas |
Stephen Tobolowsky | Ray |
Ray McKinnon | Stan |
Henry Thomas | Mr. Wells / Hank Williams / "Mr. Wells" / Luke |
Natalie Canerday | Nurse |
Danny Thomason | Dr. Stoneacre |
Lawrence Hamilton | Street Musician |
Graham Gordy | Attendant |
Bill Butler | Bellman |
Fred Thompson | O'Keefe |
Mark W. Johnson | Trooper |
James Hampton | Judge Matheny |
Jeff Bailey | Maynard |
Dash Goff | Store Keeper |
Clint Albright | Old Man |
Matt Lindahl | Store Singer / Guitar Player |
Kaley Cuoco | Wanda |
Rick Dial | Dirty John / Dirty Black John |
Jennifer Pierce Mathus | Good Looking Woman |
Will Koberg | Leroy |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Harry Thomason | Executive Producer |
Benjy Gaither | Executive Producer |
Tim Jackson | Executive Producer |
Rodney Stone | Executive Producer |
James Castle | Producer |
Charlie Dicus | Producer |
Doug Hall | Producer |
Douglas Jackson | Producer |
Dwight Jackson | Producer |
Chad O'Connor | Producer |
Kristen Packard | Producer |
Benjy Gaither | Producer |
Dub Cornett | Producer |