Actress Helen Hunt is arranging to direct, produce, and star in Ride, the story of a magazine editor who explores cross-country to be with her son after he resolves to drop out of school and become a surfer.
The 50-year-old actress, who is nominated for an Academy Award for her bold performance as Cheryl in The Sessions" a role that obliged her to be naked for much of the movie, is also the screenwriter.
Luke Wilson, David "Angel" Zayas (of television's Dexter fame), Richard Kind, and Leonor Varela will also star in Ride.
The Oscar-winning actress will play an anxious-stricken working mother from New York who travels on an unexpected journey of self-discovery when she trails her son to California.
Actor Brenton Thwaites will play as Hunt's son.
Thwaites "plays a 20-year-old NYU student who moves from New York to California for the summer. He leaves behind his strong-willed magazine editor mother (Hunt) and when she hears he's chucking school for surfing, she follows him," according to Deadline.
"There, he pursues his dream and she pursues him. Along the way she meets a surf teacher (Wilson) who brings her to life in every way. Both mother and son find their own version of love, sex and an unexpected state of grace in a most unlikely place."
Helen directed her first feature film Then She Found Me in 2007. She co-starred with Bette Midler and Colin Firth. Ride will be the second film directed by Helen Hunt.
Ride will start production on August 5 in Los Angeles. It is set to move forward filming in October in New York.
Hunt appeared in The Sessions, Cast Away, Pay it Forward, Twister, What Women Want, 2007's Then She Found Me, which she also directed and more. Her future projects are Decoding Annie Parker, Serpent Girl, Joe's Mountain and Relative Insanity. She has starred on Broadway in Life (x) 3 and Our Town.
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