Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby @ MUSE Winston-Salem
Director: Adam McKay Run Time: 108 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2006
Starring: Gary Cole, John C. Reilly, Michael Clarke Duncan, Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell
FREE a/ mobile screening at MUSE Winston-Salem (226 South Liberty Street). Come for some pre-film fun at 6:45 with members of the Winston-Salem Symphony’s P.L.A.Y. music group will perform some musical numbers. Film starts at dark (~8:00). Bring your own chairs and blankets. Bring a picnic or purchase dinner from food trucks on site.
Number one NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton, Jr. But when a French Formula One driver makes his way up the ladder, Ricky Bobby’s talent and devotion are put to the test.
“Simultaneously teasing and loving a subject doesn’t make for easy comedy, but writer-star Will Ferrell and director/co-writer Adam McKay pull it off with good-ol’-boy good nature in ‘Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby’.” ~ Robert Koehler, Variety
September 13