Hick

Hick (2012)

Trouble travels together.

A pistol-packing teen meets an unstable rebel and a cocaine-snorting drifter as she hitchhikes her way out West.

Date of release
2012-05-11
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (462)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Derick Martini

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: North Carolina

Hick is a 2011 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Derick Martini from a screenplay by Andrea Portes, based on Portes' 2007 novel of the same name. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Eddie Redmayne, Rory Culkin, Juliette Lewis, Ray McKinnon, Anson Mount, Blake Lively, and Alec Baldwin. It follows Luli (Moretz), a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl who runs away from her neglectful parents and sets out for Las Vegas. Along the way, she meets a drifter (Redmayne) and a troubled young woman (Lively).

Production

It was announced in June 2010 that Chloë Grace Moretz would star in a film adaptation of Andrea Portes' 2007 coming-of-age novel Hick, with Derick Martini set to direct from a screenplay by Portes. In November, Kirsten Dunst joined the cast. Blake Lively and Eddie Redmayne were added to the cast in February 2011, with Lively replacing Dunst.

Principal photography began in the last week of March 2011 and lasted approximately 30 days, with filming taking place in 11 cities in North Carolina, including Whiteville, Hallsboro, Kelly, Burgaw, Atkinson, Lexington, Madison, Concord, Winnabow, Lake Waccamaw, and Wilmington.

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