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Genres:
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Action /
Horror /
Thriller
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Director:
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John Dahl
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Actors:
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Basil Wallace,
Brian Leckner,
Dell Yount,
Rachel Singer,
Mary Wickliffe,
McKenzie Satterthwaite,
Kenneth White,
Luis Cortés,
Steve Zahn,
Paul Walker,
Leelee Sobieski,
Jessica Bowman,
Stuart Stone,
Michael McCleery,
Jim Beaver
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Duration:
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97 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)138
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Plot Summary:
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The skeleton concerns Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker), a brood man who decides to go testy-boondocks to pick up his high school luxurious, Venna Wilcox (Leelee Sobieski), from college. On his avenue there, he bails his brother, Fuller Thomas (Steve Zahn), out of jail. Fuller, looking notwithstanding a good time, decides to ride with Lewis. During their trip to pick up Venna, Fuller coaxes Lewis into playing a cruel story, inclusive of their CB radio, on a trade driver, known only as 'Rusty Nail' (voiced by Ted Levine). When the joke takes a boring construct, Lewis, Venna, and Fuller find themselve... s being relentlessly stalked next to the psychotic truck driver who is looking on more than an apology.
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Joy Ride
Joy Ride, a sly and scary thriller-chiller, is the latest from John Dahl, maestro of neo-noir, and it is terrific escapist fare, stylish, outrageous and compelling. Many have tried but few have been able to draw upon the sardonic fatalism of classic noir as effectively as Dahl to make films that are completely contemporary in tone and humor, beginning with his Red Rock West in 1993, which was soon followed by The Last Seduction with Linda Fiorentino as an unforgettably heartless femme fatale.
This slam-bang Fox release strikes precisely the right note and never lets it go. Leelee Sobieski is a pretty and surely popular college girl and clearly knows it. When she unexpectedly needs a cross-county ride to New Jersey with the arrival of summer vacation, she knows ...
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