{"id":617369,"date":"2024-04-18T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-matthew-modines-scenic-cycle-through-the-west\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:00:00","slug":"watch-matthew-modines-scenic-cycle-through-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-matthew-modines-scenic-cycle-through-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Matthew Modine&#8217;s Scenic Cycle Through the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37a5ad0813c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a37a5ad0813c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-matthew-modines-scenic-cycle-through-the-west\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Matthew_Modines_Scenic_Cycle_Through_the_West%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Matthew Modine&#8217;s Scenic Cycle Through the West&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-matthew-modines-scenic-cycle-through-the-west\/#%E2%80%9CMatthew_Modines_Scenic_Cycle_Through_the_West%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Matthew Modine&#8217;s Scenic Cycle Through the West&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Matthew_Modines_Scenic_Cycle_Through_the_West%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Matthew Modine&#8217;s Scenic Cycle Through the West&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMatthew_Modines_Scenic_Cycle_Through_the_West%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Matthew Modine&#8217;s Scenic Cycle Through the West&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A grueling two-pedal route to the Grand Canyon just might provide the course-correction male juvenile offenders need in \u201cHard Miles.\u201d With Matthew Modine as their teacher-coach, this fact-inspired tale covers familiar redemptive sports drama terrain. But it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed with affectingly understated assurance by director R.J. Daniel Hanna (\u201cMiss Virginia\u201d) and a strong cast, making for a satisfying scenic ride that picked up several festival audience awards last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In a film loosely based on the life and work of his character\u2019s offscreen namesake, Modine plays avid cyclist Greg Townsend, welding instructor at a medium-security correctional residential school in Colorado. That job environment is no picnic, given volatile students who can go from bantering to insults to fistfights in a flash. Plus he\u2019s got his own demons to wrestle with \u2014 there are flashbacks to an abused childhood, and phone calls from an incarcerated brother keep urging Greg to see the dying father he\u2019s estranged from. Ergo he\u2019s looking forward to two weeks\u2019 solo vacationing on two wheels, traversing three states and 762 miles to the Grand Canyon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Unfortunately, the institution he\u2019s employed by is under critical review by government authorities, and in sore need of good PR. (The actual RidgeView Youth Services Center was shut down by the state in 2022, for reasons left out of Hanna and Christian Sander\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>.) Half-joking about the photogenic publicity value of \u201choods in the woods,\u201d the facility\u2019s chief (Leslie David Baker from \u201cThe Office\u201d) has a backpacking trip in mind for the better-behaved residents. Rather than give up his own plans entirely, Greg instead proposes taking four boys who\u2019ve been making bicycle parts in his class on the odyssey he\u2019d already planned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    This seems a terrible idea to co-worker Haddie (Cynthia McWilliams), a trained psychologist who often flinches at his blunt responses to flareups from kids with complex behavior issues. The diverse quartet he\u2019s chosen are no exception: Recidivist Woolbright (Jahking Guillory) is a smirking, defeatist foe to all authority. Wiry Atencio (Damien Diaz) has a trigger temper, while burly Rice\u2019s (Zach Robbins) tends to smolder. Rail-thin Smink (Jackson Kelly) exerts control via the self-deprivation of an eating disorder. Because Greg isn\u2019t always the perfect adult role model himself (at one point he calls his charges \u201cstupid crybabies\u201d), Haddie gets saddled with coming along as driver of their supply van.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Given scant prior training, this quarrelsome \u201cteam\u201d is off to a rough start, encountering plenty of personality-conflict speed bumps ahead. But \u201cHard Miles\u201d also conveys the exhilaration of the open road, steep physical challenges conquered, and collective bonding that results. Though we learn little about their individual histories, we can feel how these characters blossom in the rare glow of being allowed to actually achieve something themselves. This ride proves they\u2019re not simply loser delinquents, as they\u2019ve always been told.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The pacing slackens somewhat around the two-thirds point, then rallies for separate climaxes sentimental (when Greg finally visits his father\u2019s deathbed) and rousing (as the Grand Canyon is reached), both handled with moving restraint rather than heavy-handed melodrama or inspirational uplift. While there\u2019s an occasional corny line here, Hanna and Sander wisely keep dialogue on the humorous and\/or argumentative side \u2014 after all, these are figures who\u2019ve learned the hard way not to admit emotional vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Almost 40 years after playing another driven amateur athlete in \u201cVision Quest,\u201d Modine is solid as a man who might be that same figure far down a road rougher than expected, his wide-eyed optimism now gone and his sportsmanship carrying the whiff of compulsive escape. The younger actors are very good, if perhaps a bit mature-looking to pass as teens. McWilliams and Baker provide notes of flinty good humor, as does Sean Astin as a bike repair shop owner arm-twisted into being the team\u2019s \u201csponsor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Highlighting the smooth tech and design contributions is Mack Fisher\u2019s widescreen cinematography, which makes the most of numerous spectacular landscape vistas \u2014 even if apparently some of them are in reality Californian, rather than from the route dramatized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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