Hick

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Hick

R

Released May 11, 2012

1h 42m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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A pistol-packing teen (Chloë Grace Moretz) meets an unstable rebel (Eddie Redmayne) and a cocaine-snorting drifter (Blake Lively) as she hitchhikes her way out West.

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Critics Consensus

Hick's talented young star is ill served by a film whose story wavers between discomfitingly inappropriate and simply muddled.

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Stephen Fitzpatrick

The Australian

Hick is worth the effort -- and it does have some genuinely witty writing.

Oct 1, 2012

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Matt Singer

Time Out Chicago

And so it came to Chlo Grace Moretz, as it must to all child actors: puberty.

Rated: 1/5

Jun 1, 2012

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Drew Hunt

Chicago Reader

Ambles back and forth between tomfoolery and strained seriousness.

May 24, 2012

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Richard Haridy

Quickflix

Derek Martini's second feature - after the competent Lymelife - is a confused mess of awkward tonal shifts and boring narrative tangents all encased in the discomforting shell of a Lolita fantasy.

Rated: 1/5

Nov 25, 2013

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Just a notch above dismal. Even with the star power

Jul 25, 2013

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Matt Pais

RedEye

Recognizes that kids can't expect the grass to be greener but comes too close to suggesting that you can expect others to mow your lawn.

Rated: 1.5/4

May 24, 2012

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Green C

It has its moments. If nothing else, a life lesson for any 13-year-old who thinks they want to run away from home. (side note: the irony of Alec Baldwin saying "I know guns. I know bullets. I know where they go. I know where they don't go.")

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/23/25

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Audience Member

It was ok but really strange at the same time. It was all over the place

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/07/25

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Epic G

A disorganized and pretentious drama with no real point. The story of a young girl runaway in the South from a poor irresponsible family meets more irresponsible travelers. Weak attempt at a coming of age storyline with inappropriate sexualization, randomness, coincidental strangers, and forced situations that fall flat. Add in a dash of idealism for far too many tryhard ingredients that combine together like water and oil. A meaningless ending that makes you no better off for having watched it. Total shot and miss.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/19/25

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Jack F

I love this movie so much it never leaves my brain and the way that my favorite character that I fall in love with turns out to be a villian is one of my favorite type of genres.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/29/24

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Alain E

One unresolved mystery will always be how this movie got financed and assembled a cast of fairly competent actors to serve a script that appears to be a hallucination of an eleven year old. In an interesting premonition, Alec Baldwin appears in a scene after someone dies when the trigger is pulled on a firearm that was assumed to be unloaded. Ten years later life imitated fiction.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/28/24

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sandra s

Worst MOVIE I ever watched. A waste of time to even write a review!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

12/24/24

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Synopsis

A pistol-packing teen (Chloë Grace Moretz) meets an unstable rebel (Eddie Redmayne) and a cocaine-snorting drifter (Blake Lively) as she hitchhikes her way out West.

Director: Derick Martini
Producer: Steven Siebert, Christian Taylor, Jonathan Cornick
Screenwriter: Andrea Portes, Derick Martini
Distributor: Phase 4 Films
Production Co: Lighthouse Productions, Taylor Lane Productions
Rating: R (Drug Use|Drinking|Disturbing Content Inv. a Teen|Language|Violence)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 11, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 18, 2016
Runtime: 1h 42m

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