Riding in Cars with Boys
“She did everything wrong, but got everything right.”
In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Studio
Columbia Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Riding in Cars with Boys performed
Budget
$48.0M
Worldwide Gross
$35.7M
Gross Profit
−$12.3M
Return
0.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$5M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Beverly Donofrio
Drew Barrymore
Beverly Donofrio
Ray Hasek
Steve Zahn
Ray Hasek
Jason
Adam Garcia
Jason
Fay Forrester
Brittany Murphy
Fay Forrester
Leonard Donofrio
James Woods
Leonard Donofrio
Teresa Donofrio
Lorraine Bracco
Teresa Donofrio
Shirley Perro
Rosie Perez
Shirley Perro
Tina Barr
Sara Gilbert
Tina Barr
Tommy Butcher
Peter Facinelli
Tommy Butcher
Beverly Donofrio (Age 11)
Mika Boorem
Beverly Donofrio (Age 11)
Uncle Lou
Vincent Pastore
Uncle Lou
Aunt Ann
Maryann Urbano
Aunt Ann
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