Selena Gomez is a runaway hitchhiking with Paul Rudd in new Netflix film

If there's anyone a hitchhiker can trust, it's Paul Rudd.
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Selena Gomez is a runaway hitchhiking with Paul Rudd in new Netflix film
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If there's anyone a hitchhiker can trust, it's Paul Rudd. 

The actor stars in the new Netflix original film The Fundamentals of Caring as Ben, a caretaker for a wheelchair-bound boy named Trevor (Craig Roberts). The film is based on a novel by Jonathan Evison.

During a road trip to lift Trevor's mood and find his biological father, they pick up a cigarette smoking runaway named Dot (Selena Gomez). She immediately takes to them, sprinkling some light, foul-mouthed manic pixie dream girl magic on the road trip. 

The Fundamentals of Caring, directed by Rob Burnett, hits Netflix on June 24.

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Yohana Desta

Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.


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