Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

Released: 2001-10-19 Duration: 2hr 12min

Genres: Comedy Drama Romance

Rating 6.8

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She did everything wrong, but got everything right.

Overview

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

Production Companies

Gracie Films

Columbia Pictures

Parkway Productions

Additional Info

Budget	$48,000,000.00
Revenue	$35,700,000.00
Original Language	en
Popularity	4.092

Directed By

Penny Marshall

Crew

Editor
Lawrence Jordan

Screenplay
Morgan Ward

Producer
Julie Ansell

Director of Photography
Miroslav Ondříček

Director
Penny Marshall

Original Music Composer
Hans Zimmer

Prosthetics
Gary Archer

Co-Producer
Timothy M. Bourne

Co-Producer
Amy Lemisch

Additional Soundtrack
Heitor Pereira

Key Hair Stylist
Francesca Paris

Unit Production Manager
Richard Baratta

Assistant Art Director
Molly Mikula

Foley Editor
Christine Danelski

Assistant Sound Editor
Kira Edmunds

Executive Producer
Morgan Ward

Construction Coordinator
Raymond M. Samitz

Dialogue Editor
Richard Corwin

Dialogue Editor
Gloria D'Alessandro

Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jeffrey J. Haboush

Foley Artist
Alicia Stevenson

Costume Design
Cynthia Flynt

Dialogue Editor
Carin Rogers

Producer
James L. Brooks

Hairstylist
Judi Goodman

Casting
Sheila Jaffe

Wardrobe Coordinator
Kathleen Mobley

Music Editor
Verna Mandel

Editor
Richard Marks

Assistant Art Director
Ted Haigh

Assistant Art Director
Marion Kolsby

Casting
Georgianne Walken

Set Decoration
George DeTitta Jr.

Makeup Artist
Kimberly Greene

Hairstylist
Stanley Hall

Greensman
Amy Safhay

Foley Mixer
David Betancourt

ADR Editor
Wayne Griffin

ADR Editor
Michele Perrone

Assistant Chief Lighting Technician
Xavier Henselmann

Key Grip
George Patsos

Music Editor
Jennifer Nash

Executive Producer
Bridget Johnson

Foley Artist
Dawn Fintor

Dialogue Editor
Victoria Sampson

Steadicam Operator
Kyle Rudolph

Assistant Editor
Terel Gibson

Production Coordinator
Scott Kordish

Unit Publicist
Amy Leigh Johnson

Book
Beverly D'Onofrio

Producer
Richard Sakai

Supervising Sound Editor
Dennis Drummond

ADR Editor
Laura Graham

Foley Supervisor
Jonathan Klein

Dolly Grip
Keith Bunting

Wardrobe Supervisor
Rose Wells

Production Design
Bill Groom

Dialogue Editor
Kim Drummond

Sound Effects Editor
Stewart Nelsen

Second Assistant "B" Camera
Matthew W. Flannery

Seamstress
Joni M. Huth

Assistant Editor
Paul Parsons

Pilot
Al Cerullo

Co-Producer
Beverly D'Onofrio

Producer
Laurence Mark

Makeup Artist
Don Kozma

Property Master
David H. Allen

Assistant Art Director
Stephen H. Carter

Scenic Artist
Doug Cluff

Sound Effects Editor
John M. Chalfant

Foley Editor
Matthew Dettmann

Foley Editor
Scott G.G. Haller

ADR Mixer
Howard London

Art Direction
Teresa Carriker-Thayer

Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Bill W. Benton

Foley Mixer
Lane Burch

Assistant Sound Editor
Ann Ducommun

Wardrobe Supervisor
Cheryl Kilbourne-Kimpton

First Assistant Editor
Debra L. Tennant

Makeup Artist
Christine Leiter

Key Makeup Artist
Bernadette Mazur

Assistant Sound Editor
Bill Burns

Assistant Sound Editor
Galen Goodpaster

Second Assistant Director
Danielle Rigby

Scenic Artist
Garf Brown

Dialogue Editor
David A. Arnold

Assistant Sound Editor
Dana LeBlanc Frankley

Foley Artist
Gary A. Hecker

Producer
Sara Colleton

Hairstylist
Barbara Olvera

First Assistant Director
Richard Patrick

Leadman
Gerald DeTitta

Assistant Editor
Juli Vizza

ADR Supervisor
Alison Fisher

First Assistant Camera
Joe Collins

First Assistant Camera
Gary Muller

Rigging Grip
Billy Patsos

Assistant Costume Designer
Lynn Hoffman

Scenic Artist
Sylvia Trapanese

Sound Effects Editor
Michael O'Farrell

Chief Lighting Technician
Petr Hlinomaz

Still Photographer
Andrew D. Schwartz

Camera Operator
Craig DiBona

Camera Loader
Kathleen Corgan

Second Assistant Camera
A. Lee Morris

Assistant Editor
Greg Thompson

Location Manager
Lyn Pinezich

Casting Associate
Katharina Eggmann

Music Editor
Laura Perlman

Script Supervisor
Luca Kouimelis

Boom Operator
Joe White

Camera Operator
John Sosenko

Assistant Editor
Marisa Morabito

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