The Ride - A Christmas Eve Parable

GLU Christmas 2026-Christmas movies and timeless classics celebrating the joy of the season.

It’s Christmas Eve in the suburbs of Chicago and a bored and disengaged taxi driver reluctantly accepts one more pickup. He soon begins to suspect that his passenger is planning to commit suicide. The cabbie prolongs the ride in an uncharacteristic attempt to connect and help. See how grace invades the hearts of both men in this powerful short film by Dallas Jenkins, director of What If… Starring Kirk B R Woller, Brad Heller. Written by Nathan Scoggins, Mark Freiburger.