Helen Hunt’s delightful second film as a director (after the underrated “Then She Found Me’’ eight years ago) has her playing a control-freak fiction editor🐽 at The New Yorker whose overprotectiveness leads her son to drop out of NYU even before his first term begins.
Upon learning Angelo (Brenton Thwaites) plans to make a summer vacation with his remarried dad a permanent stay, Hunt’s Jackie hops a plane to California, where she begins stalking Angelo with th🐼e help of a very patient chauffeur (David Zayas), and eventually resumes her loud arguments with the son.
Fortunately🔥 for both of them, Jackie begins taking surfing lessons from the younger Ian ಞ(Luke Wilson), who also teaches her a more laid-back approach to life, provides some much-needed romance — and helps her get closure on a traumatic event from her past.
“Ride’’ sounds a bit like a Lifetime movie, but in Hunt’s capable hands it’s a brisk, fun🎃ny and touching comedy foಞr boomers.