Joy Ride, also known as Roadkill, is a 2001 horror-thriller/road movie. The film was written by J. J. Abrams and Clay Tarver, was directed by John Dahl, and stars Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn, and Ted Levine.
The film begins with Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker), a student of UC Berkeley in California, packing to go home as it is the end of his freshman year and the beginning of the summer holidays. At 3am he speaks on the phone to his chil...
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Joy Ride, also known as Roadkill, is a 2001 horror-thriller/road movie. The film was written by J. J. Abrams and Clay Tarver, was directed by John Dahl, and stars Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Steve Zahn, and Ted Levine.
The film begins with Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker), a student of UC Berkeley in California, packing to go home as it is the end of his freshman year and the beginning of the summer holidays. At 3am he speaks on the phone to his childhood friend Venna Wilcox (Leelee Sobieski) who is at the University of Boulder, Colorado and is also packing to go home, and Venna tells Lewis that she has just broken up with her boyfriend David. In an attempt to get Venna romantically interested in him, Lewis offers to come by Venna's campus and drive her home in a scenic and pleasant cross-country road trip instead of both of them flying back home by airplane, and Venna happily agrees. Lewis refunds his airline tickets and buys a car to impress Venna, a 1971 Chrysler Newport, from a used...
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