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What is the Joy Ride movie about? ›

When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the help of Lolo, her childhood best friend, Kat, a college friend, and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their epic, no-holds-barred experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

Joy Ride / Film synopsis

Sexual content is frequent and mature. It includes group sex between a woman and two men (moaning, rhythmic movements), and there's lots of talk about sex and bodies, especially from one character who's proud of her active, positive sex life.

The budget for this film is said to be around $32 million.

The cast was announced between August and October of the same year, and filming took place in British Columbia throughout the latter month. Joy Ride had its world premiere at SXSW on March 17, 2023, and was released in the United States on July 7, 2023, by Lionsgate Films.

If you enjoy comedies with a solid storyline as well, offering more than just cheap slapstick comedy, then director Adele Lim's 2023 movie "Joy Ride" certainly is well-worth taking 95 minutes to sit down and watch. My rating of "Joy Ride" lands on a seven out of ten stars. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.

Is the film based on a true story? Writer/director Lim tells TODAY.com that the story of Audrey, Lolo, Kat and Deadeye was loosely inspired by her own friends. She says all her friends did in their 20s was "hang out, go out partying and tell stories about our messy dating lives."

The MPAA rating has been assigned for “strong and crude sexual content, language throughout, drug content and brief graphic nudity.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several sex scenes with partial nudity, non-sexual full-frontal female nudity, many discussions of sex and sexual references, discussions of ...

Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill) provided the voiceover talent for the villainous trucker Rusty Nail in 2001's Joy Ride starring Paul Walker, Steve Zahn, and Leelee Sobieski. He was uncredited for this role, which feels surprising.

Synopsis JOYRIDE follows 12-year-old Mully (Charlie Reid), who, after fleeing his father, steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy (Olivia Colman), in the back seat with a baby.

In the first ending Lewis is able to break the board that is supporting the truck and it comes crashing down on top of Rusty Nail. In the second ending, Venna is able to get out of the chair. She shoots Rusty Nail with the shotgun as he is trying to pull Lewis under the truck.

Who drove the truck in Joy Ride? ›

Rusty Nail is the main antagonist of the Joy Ride film series. He is a psychotic and murderous truck driver who hunts down and kills his victims.

It's summer break and college freshman Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker) has decided to embark on a cross-country road trip to pick up the girl of his dreams, Venna (Leelee Sobieski). But Lewis' romantic hopes hit a detour when he stops on the way to rescue his older brother, Fuller (Steve Zahn), who goads him into playing a practical joke on a lonely trucker, over a CB radio. Now, that trucker, an unseen and terrifying force known only by his CB handle, Rusty Nail, wants the last laugh and revenge.

Joy Ride / Film synopsis

: a ride taken for pleasure (as in a car or aircraft) especially : an automobile ride marked by reckless driving (as in a stolen car) 2. : conduct or action resembling a joyride especially in disregard of cost or consequences.

The Ride recounts the life of Glaswegian pro BMX rider and author John Buultjens, who grew up with an abusive father and wanted to ride ever since he watched E.T. When he was adopted by foster parents, Buultjens received a bicycle on his tenth birthday and a lifelong love affair began.

Rusty Nail is a main antagonist in the Joy Ride movies. He is an enigmatic, serial killing truck driver who stalks, tortures and kills his victims for those who have wronged him.

Joy Mangano is a famous TV entrepreneur whose life story is now a biopic . . . but her true story is as hard to reach as the woman herself. Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox (Lawrence). David O. Russell's latest film, Joy, opens with the dedication, “Inspired by the true stories of daring women.