ComingSoon is excited to debut the Lone Rider trailer for Adam Jumba’s new film prior to its world premiere this weekend at the RiverRun Film Festival. Starring Dexter: New Blood & Dexter: Resurrection star Jack Alcott, it follows a millennial in a rut who decides to steal his father’s 1989 Mustang and go on a journey to change his life. The film will premiere Saturday, April 18, at 6:30 p.m. at the UNSCA/Babcock Theatre (tickets are now available).
“Tyler is a lonely millennial outsider, drifting through life with no reason to live other than to exist. Coasting through a dead-end job managing a dock, the realization hits that his life has hit a frustrating, yet hard-to-pinpoint stasis. Unable to get over his inability to seek a better job and a definable future, he steals his dad’s old 1989 Mustang and begins a search for meaning by way of midnight summer drives, fleeting reunions with old schoolmates, revisiting fractured friendships, and old regrets. Ultimately, his journey leads him back to Alice, the girl from his youth whose memory has haunted him since she embodies a path not taken, and maybe a life he fears he has an inability to achieve. His hoped-for reunion with her may make Tyler face the reflection of his paralysis, making her both a mirror of what he lacks and a symbol of what he might never reach,” says the synopsis.
Check out the Lone Rider trailer below (watch more trailers):
Who made Lone Rider?
Lone Rider is directed by Adam Jumba, who co-wrote the film’s script with Christian Flowers. Jumba also produced the film alongside Nick Staurulakis, while Cheryl Staurulakis served as executive producer. The film stars Alcott, Rose Reid (The Pendragon Cycle), Izabella Vidovic (Law & Order: Organized Crime), and Michael Gaston (First Reformed). It was shot by cinematographer Brian Bon and edited by Alex Jacobs, while Giovanni Mancini composed its score and Kerri Lyn Walsh handled production design.
The first spark for Lone Rider came from a photo in a textbook during my one year of community college — a biker speeding through the desert. I didn’t know the photo was from Raising Arizona at the time. All I knew was that something about it made me ask: ‘What would a movie about someone that tried to fix their emotional paralysis by drifting endlessly down highways and backroads?’ That idea stuck with me for nearly a decade,” says Jumba in a statement.
“Over those years, Lone Rider became what I thought to be a mirror for my generation — a generation often portrayed as confident, poetic, and adventurous, when in truth, many of us feel stuck, unimaginative, and quietly terrified. We scroll endlessly. We compare. We live in curated timelines while wondering if our actual lives are even real. I wanted to make a film that acknowledged the numbness of that reality — but through the eyes of a loner. A film about memory, longing, and how the more bricks you add to the wall around your heart, the harder it becomes to tear it down when someone tries to love you.”
Lone Rider has an official runtime of 67 minutes.
