Hick is certainly not your usual teenage road trip flick. Chloe Moretz plays 13-year-old Nebraska girl Luli, who has been dealt a rough hand. Her mother and father spend their evenings getting obnoxiously plastered at the local watering hole, then go at it like a pair of trashy, drunk teenagers. Certain she’s destined for a more glamorous life, Luli packs her things – including her new birthday gift, a Smith & Wesson .45 – and hitches a ride to Vegas. Dressed like a girl twice her age, she’s immediately picked up by a wannabe cowboy named Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), who walks with a limp and acts a little too crazy for comfort. The two fail to hit it off and Luli is ejected from the car. Luckily, she soon meets Glenda (Blake Lively), a grifter who acts as Luli’s big sister – albeit one who offers her drugs and uses her as an accessory to a robbery. Just as things seem to be going moderately well for Luli, Eddie makes an unwelcome return and becomes increasingly difficult to evade. Luli’s life on the road takes more than few calamitous detours, but her flippant attitude and feisty demeanor prevent the dark moments from veering into gratuitously grim territory. No UK release is currently set.
First Poster For Hick Debuts, Featuring Chloe Moretz
I can’t think of any other juvenile actress who’s spent so much of her career with a gun in her hand, but Kick Ass’ Hit Girl, Chloe Moretz, is getting out the pistols once more on the first poster for her upcoming film, Hick.
Derick Martini’s (Lymelife) film is about a rural Nebraska girl, Luli (Moretz), who gets more than she bargained for when she runs away after her hick family abandons her. Luli heads to Los Angeles, meeting numerous unsavoury characters along the way. Both funny and very dramatic – in Andrea Portes’ book Luli’s life of the road involves her becoming an accessory to a robbery as well as getting raped and tied up in a motel.
It’s out in the US in May, but there’s no UK date set as yet.