The Ride

Smokey Banks is a former rodeo star. He was once a world champion bull rider. In recent years he has made a mess of his life. In the end he stands before a court. Community service is handed down as his sentence. The place he is sent to is a boys’ ranch. The boys living there have no family. Smokey takes the terms reluctantly. He is to stay out of trouble. He is also to teach one boy to ride a bull. The boy is called Danny O’Neil. An unexpected bond forms between the two of them. That bond changes both of them. Michael Biehn and Brock Pierce take the leads, with Clarence Felder and Jennifer O’Neill also in the cast, in Michael O. Sajbel’s American film of 1997.