Announced for May 6, 2022, the film “Along for the Ride” is likely to seduce Netflix subscribers. The romantic drama is none other than the adaptation of the best-selling novel “On the road to the future”, by Sarah Dessen.
For the month of May, Netflix has gone all out! Indeed, the catalog of the streaming giant will be expanded with new programs eagerly awaited by the general public. Among the next releases, platform subscribers will be able to discover Along for the Ride. This is a particularly realistic romantic drama inspired by the work of Sarah Dessen, On the way to the future. “Auden is a perfect teenager: brilliant, pretty, mature, she has everything to make her family happy. But beneath this appearance hides a lost young girl, ill at ease and disoriented by her parents’ divorce. Determined to drown her life in her reading, Auden almost forgets to live. Until the day she meets Eliot, a young man who shares her loneliness and her insomnia.”wrote Editions Pocket Jeunesse, the publisher of the book, as a summary.
Of course, the Netflix synopsis also exudes realism: “The summer before the start of the university year, Auden meets the mysterious Eli, an insomniac like her. While the residents of the town of Colby are sleeping soundly, the two friends roam its streets. Auden gradually discovers the fulfilling and carefree teenage life she never knew she wanted. » However, it is not known if the work was taken from a true story. On the other hand, we already know that the subscribers of the platform will be able to identify easily with the characters of the film. Indeed, they will go through fundamental psychological trials and stages in the life of an adolescent.
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To bring this new film, Netflix called on Sofia Alvarez, screenwriter behind the two films To all the boys, to adapt Sarah Dessen’s book. The streaming giant has signed a contract to work on several of the author’s novels. We find in particular That song (Pocket Youth, translated by Marie Leymarie), Forever…until tomorrow (Pocket Jeunesse, translated by Stéphane Michaka) or even Once and For All (Lumen, translated by Sofia Tabia). On the casting side, the romantic drama looked at Emma Pasarow, in the skin of Auden, Belmont Cameli, who will interpret Eli, Kate Bosworth, who would play Heidi, Laura Kariuki (Maggie), Andie MacDowell (Victoria) or even Dermot Mulroney (Robert).