* I am soooo looking forward to seeing The Last Ride. I don't know what it is but I've been really enjoying all the 'country movies' that have been popping up! And I love the casting in this one! Want to win a copy on Blu-ray? I'm giving one away at the bottom of this post! Good luck! *
Henry
Thomas All Grown Up!
Coming to
Blu-ray and DVD June 4th
Ride off into the
sunset with the most legendary country artist of all-time when
THE
LAST RIDE arrives on Blu-ray and DVD June 4 from Twentieth
Century Fox Home Entertainment. Featuring an all-star cast including
Henry Thomas (
E.T.), Jesse James (
Jumper), Kaley Cuoco
(“The Big Bang Theory”), Fred Dalton Thompson (“Law &
Order”) and Stephen Tobolowsky (“Californication”), this
powerful film retraces the final days of a true American icon.
It has been three decades since he
first captured the hearts and the imagination of the world in a red
hoodie flying through the sky on his bike with E.T. in his basket,
but actor Henry Thomas still gets recognized for the iconic role in
Steven Spielberg's timeless blockbuster E.T.: The
Extra-Terrestrial. Today, Henry Thomas is a 41-year-old actor who
has since worked with actors the likes of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and
Anthony Hopkins and directors such as Martin Scorsese and Lasse
Hallstrom. The San Antonio native has recently added another
legendary name in entertainment to his growing roster: He plays
country music star Hank Williams in THE LAST RIDE.
Henry Thomas, unlike child stars such
as Corey Haim, River Phoenix or Brad Renfro, managed to avoid the
addictive pitfalls of fame. He took time out from being an actor and
returned later in the 1990s.
With a flair for playing lonely,
introverted youths, Thomas was an apt, albeit unexpected, choice to
play the young Norman Bates in Psycho IV: The Beginning
(Showtime, 1990), a quasi-sequel/prequel to the original Hitchcock
masterpiece. He made his return to U.S. features with a supporting
role in the cult-classic UFO drama, Fire in the Sky (1993), as
the friend of a man (D.B. Sweeney) who claimed to have been abducted
by aliens. He had a more sizable role in the epic period drama
Legends of the Fall (1994), as the idealistic and ill-fated
younger brother of Aidan Quinn and Brad Pitt whose mettle is tested
on the battlefields of WWI and whose death sets in motion a series of
tragic events.
In the comedy
Hijacking Hollywood
(1996), Thomas played an aspiring filmmaker who steals footage from a
special effects-laden sequel to the book Moby Dick in an effort to
finance his own movie project. He made impressive turns in such indie
features as the idiosyncratic romantic drama
Niagara, Niagara
(1997) and
Suicide Kings (1997), a quirky crime comedy
starring Christopher Walken as a kidnapped mob boss. Two years after
starring in
Hijacking Hollywood, Thomas experience a bit of
celluloid six-degrees of separation when he starred as young Ishmael
in the big-budget miniseries "Moby Dick" (USA, 1998), a
more traditional take on Melville's tale of nautical obsession,
starring Patrick Stewart as Capt. Ahab. He rode south of the border
with Matt Damon in
All the Pretty Horses (2000), director
Billy Bob Thornton's cinematic interpretation of Cormac McCarthy's
revered neo-Western novel. Later, he appeared in Martin Scorese's
bloody period drama
Gangs of New York (2002), in which he
played a supporting role alongside stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel
Day-Lewis.
Thomas played a drunk driver at the
heart of several interconnected stories in 11:14 (2003), a
black comedy co-starring Hilary Swank. In 2008, he also picked up
work as a returning character in two episodes of the procedural drama
series "Without a Trace" (CBS, 2002-09). In Dear John
(2010), he portrayed the husband of a young woman (Amanda Seyfried)
harboring an unrequited love for a soldier (Channing Tatum) with whom
she had corresponded for years.
Outside of acting, Thomas has dabbled
in the music industry. In the 1980s and 1990s, he sang and performed
with The Blue Heelers, based in Texas, and he continues to rock out
with the Los Angeles band Farspeaker.
GIVEAWAY TIME!!
ONE lucky CAN/US reader will win a copy of The Last Ride on Blu-ray
*sorry, no PO boxes ~ Ends June 6th at 11:59 pm EST*
a Rafflecopter giveaway
* Disclosure: I will receive a copy of the movie in exchange for this post. No other compensation will be received.
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