Riding in Cars with Boys is a 2001 film based on the autobiography of the same name by Beverly Donofrio, about a woman who overcame difficulties including being a teen mother to earning a master's degree from the span of 1961 to 1986.
Intelligent but naive Beverly Donofrio a teenager when the movie begins in the early 1960s, dreams of becoming a writer. Some years later, at 15, she and her best friend Fay, go to a party and get drunk. Beverly ends up having sex with a friendly stranger named Ray. She finds out she is pregnant and contemplates having an abortion, but cannot bring herself to do so. Ray feels it would be right to propose to Beverly and professes his love for her, she reluctantly replies the same. At her wedding, her best friend Fay announces she is also pregnant and the two girls, although upset, celebrate the fact they will both have little girls together. As the months go by, the girls realize they are missing out on life, like prom and an education. Beverly and Ray welcome a son named Jason, however, when he is born, Beverly refuses to hold him saying she had a girl, not a boy, and when Ray tells her they have a son, she bursts into tears. Beverly is jealous that she had a boy and Fay got to have a baby girl, Amelia.
Beverly kicks Ray out after he spends all their money on drugs. Jason hates his mother for making Ray leave and Beverly blames Jason for the way her life has turned out. Beverly and Fay soon turn to selling pot in order to make money, however, Jason (who is still mad at his mother) knows what they are doing and tells his grandfather, who is a cop, and he arrests them. Fay's family bail the girls out under the condition that Fay moves away with her brother and Amelia promising to not see Beverly again. In the present day, Beverly and Jason are driving to visit Ray to allow his permission to release her novel, which talks about his drug use.
Ray and Jason share a moment where Ray knew the best thing for his son was to leave and Jason knows his mom did the right thing as Ray is still an addict and living in a trailer. Ray signs the papers. Jason is also in a relationship with Amelia . However, Beverly doesn't know, and after a confrontation with his mother in which Jason says that it is her who has always ruined his life , she finally admits how proud she is of him and tells him to go to Amelia, leaving her in the middle of nowhere saying she wants him to be happy.
links to my play
The film is about a teenager who gets pregnant at 15. It is a true story and shows real life situations.
The main character in this film is like the character in my play in that she aspires to have a better life and succeed in a career even when she is pregnant.
This links well to my idea as my character will overcome the same difficulties.
