The Bicycle

Bobbi can't stand Teddy. Teddy isn't thrilled with Bobbi. Now that isn't that big a deal on the playground. But Teddy is 36 and Bobbi is 10. And they live in the same house. And Teddy is going to marry Bobbi's mother Cheryl in less that a month. When Bobbi is jumped and her bicycle stolen, Teddy realizes this is the moment to repair his relationship with Bobbi. He volunteers to help find the bully and get the bicycle back. Bobbi resists, seeing this as ploy for Teddy to get in good with her mother. What they do discover as they travel through the many worlds that make up their community will both surprise them and connect them in a way neither could imagine.
　　A loose and lovely spin on the classic BICYCLE THIEVES, director Richards’s first feature imaginatively uses social observation and brief animation segments to enrich a journey whose distance might be short but whose unexpected outcome broadens the horizons of those involved.