What is The Longest Ride about?
The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
Yes. It lands on a happy note.
A young couple's romance intertwines with an older man's poignant memories of his lost love.
Romantic and melancholy. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
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The Longest Ride parents guide
Heads up on moderate sex and nudity. That is past what the PG-13 on the box suggests. Beyond that, mild language and some violence.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the PG-13 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
Directed byGeorge Tillman Jr.
StarringBritt Robertson, Scott Eastwood, Alan Alda, Jack Huston, Oona Chaplin, Melissa Benoist
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