Apple TVThe Hitcher (2007)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 4.1
Overview
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to a hitchhiker. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the young couple with a knife, but Jim successfully throws him out of the car. This sets off a chain of events that will change all of their lives forever.
Starring Cast
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Google PlayBias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to a hitchhiker. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the young couple with a knife, but Jim successfully throws him out of the car. This sets off a chain of events that will change all of their lives forever.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
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Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film is a straightforward horror-thriller focused on survival against a psychopathic killer. Its themes of individual resilience and the failure of external authorities are primarily genre conventions rather than explicit political statements, leading to a neutral rating.
The movie features traditional casting with no explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. Its narrative is a standard horror-thriller that does not critique or negatively frame traditional identities, nor does it explicitly incorporate DEI themes.
Secondary
The film 'The Hitcher' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers on a heterosexual couple and their terrifying ordeal with a hitchhiking serial killer, with no elements related to queer identity present in the plot or character arcs.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 2007 remake retains the male protagonists, Jim Halsey and John Ryder, from the 1986 original. The female lead, Grace Andrews, is a new character, not a gender-swapped version of a previously established male character.
The 2007 film is a remake of the 1986 movie. Key characters like Jim Halsey, John Ryder, and Grace Andrews (analogous to Nash) are portrayed by actors of the same race as their counterparts in the original film. No character's race was changed from the source material.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
4.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
5.6
5.9
Critic Ratings
1.9
2.8
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