Riding in Cars with Boys

In the 1960s, Beverly dreams of becoming a writer and going to college in New York City, but her life takes a different turn when she gets pregnant after a party and agrees to marry Ray, leading to struggles with judgment, balancing motherhood and education, and dealing with Rays drug addiction, until years later when she and her son Jason visit Ray for her memoir, resulting in tensions and a heartfelt reconciliation where Bev seeks forgiveness from her son. Riding in Cars with Boys is a 2001 American English-language Biography Comedy movie featuring Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Brittany Murphy, Adam Garcia, Lorraine Bracco, James Woods and Simon Shelton. The movie is inspired from Riding in Cars with Boys by Beverly Donofrio. Columbia Pictures in association with Gracie Films. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Sara Colleton, Richard Sakai and Julie Ansell. Riding in Cars with Boys is written by Beverly D onofrio and Morgan Ward and it is directed by Penny Marshall. Sony Pictures Releasing acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Riding in Cars with Boys was released on 14th November 2001 and takes a screen time of 132 minutes. Riding in Cars with Boys was made on a budget of $48 million and at the box office it grossed only $35 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Morgan Upton Ward. Cinematography was done by Miroslav Ond ek and editing by Richard Marks. The music was composed by Hans Zimmer along with Heitor Pereira.