75%User score 75 percent
Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · Drama
User Score
40 votes
Push to the limit.
A strong-willed social worker at a youth prison assembles a cycling team of teenage convicts and takes them on a transformative 1000-mile ride. Inspired by the life of Greg Townsend and the Ridgeview Academy Cycling Team. This is the story of how these troubled young men found another gear.
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CinemaSerf
June 7, 2024
Matthew Modine is quite effective here as the cycling-obsessed Doug Townsend. By day, he's a sort of hybrid between a prison officer and social worker for young men in various stages of the criminal justice system. He is about to go on two week trip cycling the 700-odd miles to the Grand Canyon but their facility is under constant funding threat and they need something that will make a "splash". He leads a welding cl…
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June 16, 2025
Being obsessed with bicycles, I have 3 in the apartment, obviously I liked the movie. But the film is not necessarily about bicycles, as much as young people with problems. Cycling can solve these problems. Especially cycling in nature. And Grand Canyon is truly the perfect backdrop for such adventure. So nature + bike = adventure and emotional healing.
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