Hick

'Hick' is a film about a damaged 13-year-old girl who runs away from an alcohol-soaked home and encounters only hateful, cruel or moronic people. I cringed. It contains some effective performances, it does a good job of evoking bereft and empty landscapes, but what is it for? Has she learned anything? Have we?

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Directed by Derick Martini. With Chloe Grace Moretz, Blake Lively, Rory Culkin, Eddie Redmayne. A Nebraska teen gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas.

Small town teenager Luli escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Blake Lively and Eddie Redmayne.

This interview with Hicks director Derick Martini should start a discussion on why Hicks became the film to hate after critics were blindsided by it at the Toronto Film Festival.

Small town teenager Luli (Chloe Grace Moretz) escapes to Las Vegas, leaving behind her alcoholic and abusive parents. Armed with her smarts, a pistol and pocket money, she hitchhikes her way west. Along the way, Luli crosses paths with Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), an unstable rebel with questionable motives and Glenda (Blake Lively), a cocaine-snorting drifter on the run. Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Andrea Portes, this powerful story pulls you into a provocative world of drugs, seduction and murder. -- How did it rate?