The Longest Ride: Book vs. Movie
George Tillman Jr.’s The Longest Ride (2015) adapts Nicholas Sparks’s 2013 novel. Britt Robertson and Scott Eastwood play an art student and a bull rider whose romance intersects with an older man’s memories of his marriage.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Nicholas Sparks
- Year
- 2013
- Pages
- 416Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 13 hr 11 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Ron McLarty, January LaVoy
Trapped in his wrecked car, ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson keeps himself conscious through imagined conversations with Ruth, his late wife, and memories of their marriage. Nearby, college student Sophia Danko falls for bull rider Luke Collins, whose dangerous career conflicts with the future she has planned. Their emerging relationship unfolds alongside Ira’s recollections of the compromises, losses, and shared love of art that sustained his life with Ruth.
- Director
- George Tillman Jr.
- Writer
- Craig Bolotin
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 2 hr 19 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Britt Robertson, Scott Eastwood, Jack Huston, Oona Chaplin
- Genre
- contemporary Western, Drama, Romance
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Art student Sophia and rodeo rider Luke are beginning a romance when they rescue an elderly man from a car crash. Visiting him afterward, Sophia reads aloud letters that recount his marriage to Ruth, a teacher whose love of art shaped their life together. As Luke risks another serious injury to keep competing, Sophia’s friendship with Ira gives her another couple’s experience to consider alongside her own ambitions.
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