Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Talladega Nights The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a 2006 American sports comedy film directed by Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell, and written by McKay and Ferrell. The film also features John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole, and Michael Clarke Duncan. Various Saturday Night Live alumni also make appearances. Real life NASCAR drivers like Jamie McMurray and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. also make cameos as themselves, as do the broadcasting teams of NASCAR on Fox Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip and NASCAR on NBC Bill Weber, Wally Dallenbach, Jr. and Benny Parsons. Talladega Nights was also Pat Hingles last film, before his death in 2009.

Ricky Bobby Will Ferrell is a NASCAR driver who wants to go fast. While he was working on the pit crew of Dennit Racing driver Terry Cheveaux Adam McKay, Ricky replaces him and ends up finishing in third place, despite starting midrace in last place. Ricky quickly soars to the top of NASCAR by achieving his fame and fortune at Dennit Racing and meeting his future wife, Carly Leslie Bibb. Ricky eventual out about his divorce upon his return, but despite Cals desire to remain best friends, Ricky suddenly breaks off his friendship after he accuses Cal of wrecking his life.Ricky moves back with his mom, Lucy Bobby Jane Lynch, with his two sons, Walker and Texas Ranger Houston Tumlin and Grayson Russell, and takes his job as a pizza deliveryman. However, Ricky is reduced to using a bicycle and riding the bus after losing his license for colliding his pickup truck with a customers shopping cart and the Sheriff later wrote him the ticket for this accident. With Rickys life at his lowest point, and with his life being unable to get any worse, his father, Reese who was absent for most of Rickys life, Gary Cole, teaches him to conquer his demons by driving a car with a live cougar. After receiving his retraining and guidance from Reese, Ricky finally regains his confidence, but Reese intentionally walks out from him with the parting knowledge that the mantra around which Ricky had based his life was in fact meaningless. Ricky talks to his assistant and new love interest, Susan Amy Adams, who convinces him to return to NASCAR not because of his desire to live up to the expectations of others, but because it is his nature to drive fast. Ricky and Susan fall in love with each other after Ricky decides to heed Susans advice to race at the Talladega 500. He starts his own team and prepares himself a pit crew and racecar for his races. ........

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