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Plot summary
Angela Payton's brother James is an Atlanta detective working a smuggling case against a dealer known as Omar. Angela's boyfriend Ben works security at a high school and spends his free time on video games. He has applied to the city police academy and asks James for his blessing to marry Angela. James will grant it only if Ben first survives a ride along. Through the shift James sends every 1-26 call Ben's way, takes him to a shooting range and questions an informant about a shipment due that evening. At a market, Ben cannot subdue a drunken man, and James makes the arrest himself.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ride Along (2014)
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- The film was originally offered to Warner Bros., but according to Cube the executives passed because they told him an action movie with two Black stars would not sell well overseas. A studio executive said those concerns were false and that the true reason was script disagreements.
- Filming a gunfight in a mall meant warning the neighborhood first: on October 31, CBS Atlanta posted the news that Atlanta police were warning residents there would be a simulated gun battle inside the mall area during the filming on Thursday, November 1.
- Kevin Hart joined the cast on July 11, 2012 to play Ben, a high school security guard, and the character was changed from white to black when he did.
