Fresh
If you're looking to have your nerves fried and your pulse pounded, this is your ticket to ride.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Joy Ride
It started as a joke. Now the joke is on them.
2001 · 1h 38m · R
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
John Dahl
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Joy Ride
Overview
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Director and cast
- John Dahl Director
- Steve Zahn as Fuller
- Paul Walker as Lewis
- Leelee Sobieski as Venna
- Jessica Bowman as Charlotte
- Stuart Stone as Danny (Lewis's Roommate)
- Basil Wallace as Car Salesman
- Brian Leckner as Officer Keeney
- Mary Wickliffe as Salt Lake City Police Desk Clerk
- McKenzie Satterthwaite as Asst. Salt Lake City Police Desk Clerk
- Dell Yount as Gas Station Mechanic
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
74%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Dahl works the audience like the dial of a car radio, testing out all manner of squeals and static and all-out, high-pitched terror.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Fresh
Climb into this rig and you'll be sweating bullets.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
It's encouraging to see more than passing attention paid to character development.
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
Expertly toys with the fear any carbon-based life-form feels when one of those Peterbilt express trains comes rolling by with a thundercrack of vibration at about 240 mph, gently urging us to move right or die crushed and bleeding.
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
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