fraeon
Films
BrowseTop 250
Series
TV ShowsAnimeTop 250 TVTop 100 Anime
Games
BrowseTop 100
Books
BooksMangaTop 125 BooksTop 100 Manga
For youTrendingTier ListsThe ArchiveLeaderboard
Log inSign up free
fraeon

Everything you watch, play and read — tracked, rated and remembered in one library.

Explore

  • Films
  • TV
  • Anime
  • Games
  • Books
  • Manga

Discover

  • Trending
  • Leaderboard
  • Find people
  • Lists
  • Tier lists

Company

  • Tour
  • About
  • Community guidelines
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Contact

© 2026 fraeon. All rights reserved. ·

Metadata from TMDB, RAWG, Jikan & Open Library. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Questions or ideas? mehmet@avortas.com

HomeFeedProfile
Ride

Ride

When her son dropped out, she dropped in.

2014 1h 33mDramaComedyRomance

Overbearing mom, Jackie, travels cross-country to be with her son, Angelo, after he drops out of college to become a surfer. She meets a surf instructor who convinces her to try to accept her son's wishes and allow him to follow his dreams.

2.8/5

TMDB score· 146 votes

Trailer

Synopsis

Overbearing mom, Jackie, travels cross-country to be with her son, Angelo, after he drops out of college to become a surfer. She meets a surf instructor who convinces her to try to accept her son's wishes and allow him to follow his dreams.

The vibe

new york citysurfingsurferchauffeurlos angeles, californiawriterbook editormother son relationshipcodependencysurfing lessons

Behind it

Helen HuntHelen HuntDirectorJulian WassJulian WassComposerJas SheltonCinematography

Cast

Helen HuntHelen HuntJackie
Brenton ThwaitesBrenton ThwaitesAngelo
Luke WilsonLuke WilsonIan
David ZayasDavid ZayasRamon
Elizabeth Jayne StillwellElizabeth Jayne StillwellBlanche
Robert KnepperRobert KnepperPeter
Leonor VarelaLeonor VarelaDanielle
Callum Keith RennieCallum Keith RennieTim
Julie DretzinJulie DretzinJoanna
Jay RussellJay RussellMaitre 'D
Jordan Lane PriceJordan Lane PriceMarywald
Willie C. CarpenterWillie C. CarpenterDoorman
Richard KindRichard KindBoss
Makena Lei CarnahanMakena Lei CarnahanYoung Girl on Plane
Jay HuguleyJay HuguleyCo-Worker
Amberly Rose EcheverryMakena Lei
Evan WilliamsEvan WilliamsBrad
Keith EwellFlight Attendant

Director

Helen Hunt

Writer

Helen Hunt

Release date

8 Nov 2014

Runtime

1h 33m

Studio

Sandbar Pictures, South Swell Films, Abandon Entertainment

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Where to watch · US

Amazon VideoApple TV StoreGoogle Play MoviesYouTubeFandango At HomeMore

Streaming data by JustWatch via TMDB.

Reviews

No reviews yet — be the first to write one from the Log screen.

Quotes

No quotes yet.

Discussions

Similar films

LOL

In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.

3.0

LOL

2012

Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.

3.5

Jerry Maguire

1996

Is This Thing On?

As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess confronts the sacrifices she made for their family—forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.

3.3

Is This Thing On?

2025

Home Again

Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.

3.0

Home Again

2017

Anywhere but Here

Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of Hollywood success, Ann grows frustrated with her mother's irresponsible and impulsive ways.

3.0

Anywhere but Here

1999

The Choice

Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.

3.6

The Choice

2016

The Woman in Red

When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes that adultery is not quite as easy as it looks.

3.1

The Woman in Red

1984

Failure to Launch

At 35, Tripp has an interesting job, a hip car, a passion for sailing, an active dating life, and a great house - trouble is, he still lives with his parents, Al and Sue, who are not happy about it. Al and Sue are fascinated when friends whose adult son has recently moved away from home reveal they hired an expert to help. In desperation to push Tripp out of the nest once and for all, Al and Sue hatch a plan to hire Paula, an "interventionist," who has a formula in these cases.

2.9

Failure to Launch

2006

Float

Waverly thought she had her future figured out: she’d start her medical residency in Toronto after a summer visit to her parents in Taipei. When her plans suddenly change, she makes an impulsive detour to a small Canadian town where she meets local lifeguard Blake. After he saves her from nearly drowning at a beach party, Blake offers to teach Waverly to swim, and as the lessons continue, the two unexpectedly find themselves falling in love.

3.3

Float

2024

Charlie St. Cloud

Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. After high school classmate Tess returns home unexpectedly, Charlie grows torn between honoring a promise he made four years earlier and moving forward with newfound love. As he finds the courage to let go of the past for good, Charlie discovers the soul most worth saving is his own.

3.5

Charlie St. Cloud

2010

Midnight Sun

Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

3.9

Midnight Sun

2018

Under the Tuscan Sun

Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexpected ways.

3.5

Under the Tuscan Sun

2003

Young Adult

A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

2.9

Young Adult

2011

Your Place or Mine

When best friends and total opposites Debbie and Peter swap homes for a week, they get a peek into each other's lives that could open the door to love.

3.1

Your Place or Mine

2023

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.

3.5

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

1974

The Sandpiper

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

3.2

The Sandpiper

1965

The Jane Austen Book Club

Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.

3.2

The Jane Austen Book Club

2007

Big Wednesday

Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.

3.5

Big Wednesday

1978

Similar across media

Same mood, other forms — books, series, anime, games and beyond.

Game
Final Fantasy X

Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure

4.8

Final Fantasy X

2001

Book
Wuthering Heights

form:novel · genre:tragedy

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

1846

Game
Stardew Valley

Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator

4.5

Stardew Valley

2016

Book
Emma

Social life and customs · Mate selection

Emma

Jane Austen

1815

Game
Mass Effect

Shooter · Role-playing (RPG)

4.4

Mass Effect

2007

Book
Sense and Sensibility

Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency · Inheritance and succession, fiction

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

1811

Game
Doki Doki Literature Club!

Adventure · Indie

4.7

Doki Doki Literature Club!

2017

Book
Little Women

Romans · Jeunes filles

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

1848

Game
The Sims

Simulator

4.3

The Sims

2000

Book
Анна Каренина

Fiction · Adultery

Анна Каренина

Лев Толстой

1876

Game
To the Moon

Point-and-click · Puzzle

4.1

To the Moon

2011

Book
The Great Gatsby

Married people, fiction · American fiction (fictional works by one author)

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1920