Ray Meets Helen

Ray Meets Helen (2018)

You can't buy happiness...but you can try

Two lonely strangers who are struggling in life cross paths with each other under unusual circumstances and get a chance to start over.

Date of release
2018-05-04
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Director
Alan Rudolph

Casting

Interesting facts

Ray Meets Helen is a 2017 romantic drama film directed by Alan Rudolph. It is notable as Sondra Locke's last acting appearance before her death in 2018.

Production

Rudolph wrote the script fifteen years before it was made. It was based on several newspaper articles, one about an armored-truck crash where the truck had gone off the freeway into a poor neighborhood, and another one about a woman who found another woman’s identity and decided to become her.

Rudolph had a chance to make the film fifteen years after he wrote the script. He decided to cast long time collaborator Keith Carradine in the male lead opposite Lesley Ann Warren as Helen. Warren but she was replaced by the older Sondra Locke, who came out of retirement to do the role. Rudolph said "Locke is known for all those movies she did with Eastwood... and I thought, well, [casting her] is like discovering someone of a certain age.",

It was Alan Rudolph's first feature film in 15 years.

The film uses the track of the Triangle Sun group by composer Alexander Knyazev. The director really liked the sound of the instrumental track "Buddha" conveying the concept and mood of the film.

According to the moderator of Alan Rudolph's fan club, the director knew that Locke was dying but never let on and was complicit in allowing her death to go unreported for a month and a half.

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