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 …

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 …

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 …

Feb 2, 2025 · In this warm and beautifully textured feature, director Rashad Frett journeys the interior emotional roads of Ricky, a betrayed teenager living inside of a prison-cut adult body …

Feb 3, 2025 · Directed and co-written by Rashad Frett, Ricky follows Ricardo “Ricky” Smith (Stephan James, of Babes), a man who has spent his entire adult life behind bars.

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Jan 27, 2025 · This explains a lot; though he’s a big guy and works out, Ricky is something of a man-child, as Cheryl soon learns when she tries, semi-successfully, to seduce him.

Jan 27, 2025 · For 30-year-old Ricky Smith (Stephan James), life as a free man in Hartford, Connecticut is even harder than he feared. Fresh out of prison after serving 15 years behind …

Jan 24, 2025 · Ricky is a powerful drama about the impacts of the American prison system with an achingly vulnerable performance from star Stephan James.