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Riding in Cars with Boys
Summary: A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: PG
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 48,000,000
Domestic: $ 30,165,536
International: $ 5,577,772
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