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Is Joy Ride worth watching? ›

Fresh takes, classic gags, and excellent performances from its leads elevate an occasionally clunky and very packed script into something well worth watching.

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

15.8 million USD

Joy Ride / Box office

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

There is a lot of drinking and drugs in the first half of the movie. Overall I would say that it's probably best left for 16+ unless your kid is super mature about sex and you're okay with them watching and hearing the things in this movie.

Is Joy Ride based on a true story? No, Joy Ride is a work of fiction. However, it draws inspiration from real-life events and urban legends.

It was released in the United States on October 5, 2001, and in the UK under the title Road Kill on April 26, 2002, and in Australia as Roadkill. The alternate titles were because of the negative connotations of “joy rides” as stealing cars rather than fun roadtrips.

He was voiced by Ted Levine (who also portrayed Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, Karkull in Superman: The Animated Series, General Russell Woodman in Evolution, Bloodbath McGrath in Wild Wild West, and Ken Wheatley in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) and physically portrayed by Matthew Kimbrough in Joy Ride, Mark ...

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.

One horror boogeyman who rarely gets brought up is Rusty Nail, the murderous truck driver from Joy Ride. The original Joy Ride from 2001 was co-written by J.J.

What happened in Joy Ride? ›

Audrey learns that her birth mother has died and visits her grave, but meets her birth mother's husband, Dae Han there. Dae Han shows Audrey a video recorded by her birth mother before her death and tells her that her friends had told him he might find Audrey at her birth mother's grave.

And yet, you'll be surprised to learn that the cast didn't go to Asia. In fact, production designer Michael Norman Wong and cinematographer Paul Yee built and shot Seoul, South Korea and Beijing right in Vancouver.

I wanted to like the person and the movie, and even though her bio is fascinating, this movie takes too long and is downright unpleasant. While not as good as David O. Russell's previous films, Joy is still worth watching for Jennifer Lawrence's great performance and some lovely, well-written scenes.

This series is not as popular as Kimi No Todoke which is awesome too even the pace is quite slow. If you want some intense love story, Ao Haru Ride or its English name Blue Spring Ride is the right choice. Story move fast and our heart simultaneously beating with the character.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 74% of 116 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "A well-constructed B-movie thriller, Joy Ride keeps up the necessary level of tension and chills.

Writer-director Sofia Alvarez, writer of "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" and its sequel, finds the heart and soul in her teenage characters. Content collapsed. Along for the Ride is refreshing as a romantic teen movie that doesn't caricaturize young adults or trivialize their problems.