Sentences with phrase «life rodeo rider»

It stars real - life rodeo rider Brady Jandreau and is based on his life, and is an elegant, quietly beautiful story of redemption.

The movie's main character Brady Blackburn is played by real - life rodeo rider Brady Jandreau.

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Jandreau is a real - life Pine Ridge rodeo rider, playing a barely fictionalized version of himself, and director Chloe Zhao (Songs My Brothers Taught Me) brings a documentarian's eye to his story, augmented with some striking photography making the most of the movie's picturesque Badlands geography.

The story, too, comes mostly from real life, with Brady Jandreau, a former rodeo rider who suffered a traumatic head injury while riding, playing Brady Blackburn, a professional rodeo rider who's trying to determine what to do with his life after suffering a traumatic head injury while riding.

In a telling scene, he's giving away some of his old rodeo clothes to an up - and - coming rider, and confronted with a younger man who has his whole life and career ahead of him, Brady suggests an impromptu wrestling match, which he takes just a bit too far to prove himself.

As a counterpoint, The Rider features another real - life figure, Lane (Lane Scott), a star rodeo rider who is now paralyzed.

It's this short term thinking that renders it impossible for rider Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau) to dream of a life beyond those series of seconds at the rodeo.

The remarkable Brady Jandreau — a star in the making with no acting experience to lean on — tackles the central role of Lakota cowboy Brady Blackburn, a 20 - year - old saddle - bronc rider and horse trainer who lives for the rodeo.

Dallas Buyers Club, the new film by French Canadian director Jean - Marc Vallée (The Young Victoria), is inspired by the true - life story of Ron Woodroof, a hard - partying electrician (and rodeo rider) who, when the film starts (in 1985), is diagnosed with H.I.V. and given 30 days to live.

Zhao met her film's star, Brady Jandreau, a real - life horse trainer and rodeo rider, during the filming of her first movie.

It's the story of a young rodeo rider who lives on an Indian reservation in South Dakota.

Zhao, who is Chinese - American, told Variety that she used a tiny crew of about half a dozen friends and family to shoot «The Rider,» which charts the frustrated dreams of a South Dakota rodeo rider, played by real - life cowboy Brady Jandreau.

Part semi-documentary, part semi-fictional storytelling and an all - American chronicle of hardship and transcendental bliss, filmmaker Chloé Zhao follows a wounded Native American rodeo star (real - life circuit rider Brady Jandreau) as he deals with rehabilitation, an unstable family situation and life after your dream doesn't come true.