Hick (2012)

Hick is a 2012 dramatic feature film directed by Derick Martini, based on the novel of the same name by Andrea Portes. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2011. Its theatrical release is scheduled for May 11, 2012 and will be distributed by Phase 4 Films.

Lily (Chloe Moretz) has just turned thirteen and lives the lifestyle of a hick as imagined by people who have driven through the heartland and occasionally watched a daytime talk show. If you think I’m exaggerating, in Lily’s house she has a working TV sitting on top of a broken TV. Apparently Martini and co-writer Andrea Portes (on whose novel the film is based) mistook Jeff Foxworthy jokes as an anthropological study. But Lily’s a smart girl and a big dreamer who feels trapped by her alcoholic parents and when her mother (Juliette Lewis) splits town with a richer man, Lily takes that as her cue that it’s time to make her escape as well. Packing the gun she received at her birthday party (which was in a bar!  Oh), Lily starts hitchhiking to the city that never sleeps in the hopes she can find a sugar daddy who wouldn’t mind going to jail for statutory rape. On her journey, she comes across psychotic gimp cowboy Eddie (Eddie Redmayne), the freewheeling cokehead Glenda (Blake Lively), and other characters.