Let It Ride is a 1989 comedy film. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as a normally unsuccessful habitual gambler who experiences a day in which he wins every bet he places. The film was directed by Joe Pytka and written by Nancy Dowd, based on the novel Good Vibes by Jay Cronley. Teri Garr, Jennifer Tilly, Cynthia Nixon, David Johansen and Robbie Coltrane are also in the cast. Let It Ride was primarily filmed at Hialeah Park Race Track, which was closed in 2001 and reopened on November 28, 2009. The story's light comedy is centered around the personality contrasts and the perpetually upbeat, hopeful... attitudes of losers. Jay Trotter drives a cab. His friend Looney, also a cab driver, has a secret microphone in his taxi to record his passengers' conversations. Looney has a tape of two men talking about a horse race and how one of the horses, due to some unethical practice by its owner, is a sure thing to win big. Jay goes to the track to place a bet -- despite the fact that the day before, he told his wife Pam that he would quit betting and be home to "start their marriage over" at noon.
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| Release date: | August 18, 1989 |
| Directed by: | Joe Pytka, Joe Pytka |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 87 Minutes |
| Producer: | Richard Stenta |
| Editor: | Dede Allen, Jim Miller |
| Music by: | Giorgio Moroder |
| Screenplay by: | Nancy Dowd |
| Estimated budget: | $5,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Good Vibes |
| Genre: | Comedy |