Ripe

Ripe (1996)

No one stays innocent forever.

When their abusive parents are killed in a car crash, twin sisters Rosie and Violet vow to run away to Kentucky in search of a better life. While on the road, the girls meet up with Pete, a drifter working as a grounds keeper on a derelict army base, who takes them in. While Violet falls for him, Rosie becomes increasingly angry and hostile, and the sisters' childhood bond is eventually destroyed forever.

Date of release
1996-09-10
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama
Director
Mo Ogrodnik

Casting

Interesting facts

Ripe is a 1996 American independent drama film. It was the first film written and directed by Mo Ogrodnik and starred Monica Keena and Daisy Eagan.

Trivia

Aerial coordination for the movie was done by South Carolina skydiver and pilot Robert "Bobby" Frierson. Local Barnwell, South Carolina, skydivers John Adair, Mike Holbert, and Terry Curtis were cast as paratroopers in the film. Nine years after Ripe was filmed, Frierson died in a skydiving accident on September 11, 2005. He'd had a stroke on January 30, 2000.

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