Ricky is a 2025 American drama film, directed and produced by Rashad Frett, in his directorial debut, from a screenplay by Frett and Lin Que Ayoung. It is an expansion of the 2023 short film of the same …

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Newly released after being locked up in his teens, 30-year-old Ricky navigates the challenging realities of life post-incarceration, and the complexity of gaining independence for the first time as an adult.

Jan 27, 2025 · Ricky, which premiered at Sundance and is based on Frett’s short of the same name, chronicles the difficulties previously incarcerated people face once they re-enter the world.

Jan 25, 2025 · As Ricky, Stephan James has a pensive baby face (he resembles the young Matt Damon), and he plays every moment beautifully, caught between a kind of street worldliness and a …

Jan 27, 2025 · The amount of effort it takes to be a law-abiding citizen in America—and anywhere else, for that matter—is the subject of Ricky, Rashad Frett ’s thoughtful feature debut, starring Stephan ...

Jan 15, 2026 · “Ricky,” director Rashad Frett’s film that won the Sundance Directing Award at last year’s Sundance, is going the self-distribution route and will be released theatrically on March 20, 2026,...

Feb 14, 2025 · This is the premise of Ricky, a drama co-written, produced, and directed by Rashad Frett. Ricky follows Ricardo “Ricky” portrayed by Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk) in a...

Jan 26, 2025 · Ricky begins with a group of women praying over its title character, full name Ricardo Smith. He has just been released after serving 15 years and prayer may be one of the only ways …

Feb 19, 2025 · Moving with a frenetic, vérité-style energy, Ricky exists in the in-between, following a man who is neither fully free nor fully imprisoned, a man still haunted by the rhythms of incarceration...