Riding in Cars with Boys

Synopsis: Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter's problems, and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school. However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another, Beverly discovers she's pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less difficult

Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Director(s): Penny Marshall

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Adam Garcia, Brittany Murphy

Production: Columbia Pictures

2 wins & 2 nominations.


IMDB:: 6.5
Metacritic:: 43
Rotten Tomatoes:: 49%

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: PG-13
Year:: 2001
: 132 min
: $29,601,298
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There on a windswept bluff, he stands
waiting. The man of your dreams.
The man who'll love you more
than anything the rest of your life.
You run to each other.
Your bodies, your lips...
...they're coming closer and closer
together. Until, finally...
...you kiss.
Okay, go.
Janet, like this.
I feel weird, Bev.
Weird? Wait till he shoves
his tongue in your mouth.
Ann, did you get the lights
for the dining room?
I'm looking for them, Teresa.
Now this is Christmas, huh?
Yes, it's beautif ul.
Have Lou look for them.
She wants it up
before Leo and Bev get back.
I gotta go.
Okay, Leo.
Beverly Ann Donof rio, your father's
waiting to go buy the tree!
I'm coming, Mom!
Okay, so is Christmas.
- This song's giving me a headache.
- Wait. Before you go with Pop.
Why would a guy
put his tongue in my mouth?
What?!
A boy does that because
he wants you to bite it off.
Go.
Bye, Mom.
Hi.
- You ready?
- Yeah.
Let's go.
- Pop, everyone's decorating the house.
- Good.
Janet wanted to come.
When you're in college,
it'll be her turn.
Dreaming of warmth?
Dream with the Everly Brothers.
- Good, that's our song!
- Great! Ready? One, two:
Pop, this is it! Pull over.
The big one, there. See?
I'll buy that for you when I'm rich.
- I bet you will.
- Mom and sis would like it.
You know what you want for Christmas?
You want the bike, right?
It's the bike. But you think
it's too expensive.
See, I know how you think.
Speak up. If you don't ask for
anything, it's what you get, nothing.
Okay.
There's this guy, Billy Schnar,
he's really cute.
Billy Schnar?
We're the smartest in class.
You know who he likes? Guess!
- Who?
- Melissa Thomas, you know her?
The one with braces and ugly red hair.
She thought Israel was in Europe.
You know why he likes her? Guess!
- Because she's stupid.
- No, because she's got boobs!
Or it looks like she does,
but she doesn't. She wears a bra...
...which squishes her fat together...
...and makes her look like
she has big boobs.
Pop, I'm gonna die
if I don't marry Billy Schnar.
I'm gonna die all because
Melissa has boobs?
That's just way too tragic,
even for Shakespeare.
Okay, Pop, so that's why for
Christmas, I'd like a bra.
To enhance what I got,
which is more than Melissa.
- You're too young.
- Pop, you can't negotiate my boobs.
Too young or not, I've got them.
I'm a woman.
- It's hard to see through my clothes.
- Quiet!
The answer is no.
Keep your mind on books, not boys.
This is why therapists are wealthy:
moments like this.
Why didn't he just get her the bra?
/t's certainly cheaper than a bicycle.
Parents and the damage they can do.
Sometimes, it's endless.
But she survived.
y ou know what they say:
'That which doesn't kill you,
makes you want to die. '
/f she was Southern,
she'd have turned life into a song.
Since she's from Connecticut,
she turned it into a memoir.
Someone wants to publish it,
if she clears one hurdle.
So she called me for help.
That's why this is a tough day
to tell her /'m leaving her.
/ can always tell when she's nervous.
She wears a lot of makeup.
And today, she's packed on
an extra layer of nervous.
Forty minutes late.
I'm not complaining.
- It's just so unlike you.
- Sorry.
We went off to solve the problem.
Her problem. Mine would have to wait.
- What happened?
- You're cold, lean into the vent.
Sorry.
- Thanks for driving me to Wallingford.
- Just make it fast.
If Ray doesn't sign,
they won't publish it.
He will.
- I know seeing Ray is hard for you.
- Seeing Ray doesn't bother me.
It should. And I understand.
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Morgan Ward

Morgan Ward (1901–1963) was an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.Ward received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1928, with a dissertation entitled The Foundations of General Arithmetic; his advisor was Eric Temple Bell. He became a research fellow at Caltech, and then in 1929 a member of the faculty; he remained at Caltech until his death in 1963. Among his doctoral students was Robert P. Dilworth, who also became a Caltech professor. Ward is the academic ancestor of over 500 mathematicians and computer scientists through Dilworth and another of his students, Donald A. Darling.Ward's research interests included the study of recurrence relations and the divisibility properties of their solutions, diophantine equations including Euler's sum of powers conjecture and equations between monomials, abstract algebra, lattice theory and residuated lattices, functional equations and functional iteration, and numerical analysis. He also worked with the National Science Foundation on the reform of the elementary school mathematics curriculum, and with Clarence Ethel Hardgrove he wrote the textbook Modern Elementary Mathematics (Addison-Wesley, 1962). Ward's works are collected in the Caltech library. A symposium in his memory was held at Caltech on November 21-22, 1963. more…

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