Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) on Netflix
PG-1320012h 12mBiographyComedyDrama
In Wallingford, Connecticut, Beverly Donofrio plans to study in New York City and write for a living. She is pregnant at fifteen, and Ray Hasek, the baby's father, wants to marry her.
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Plot summary
Beverly Donofrio grows up in Wallingford, Connecticut, the daughter of Leonard, a police officer, and Teresa. At eleven she asks her father for a bra, and he says she should read instead. By 1965 she is a bright teenager set on a writing career in New York City. She and her friends Fay and Tina go to a party, where she hands a love letter to Sky, a popular boy, and he reads it aloud. She hides in the bathroom, and Ray, a stranger, comes to her defense. Beverly and Ray go off with Fay and Bobby, and Leonard finds the two of them and takes them to the police station. Beverly tells Ray she is pregnant. She turns down his proposal at first, then marries him in a rushed ceremony to satisfy her parents.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
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- Riding in Cars with Boys was the last feature film directed by Penny Marshall; after it she directed only television productions, right up until her death in 2018.
