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 37m · R
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
John Dahl
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
- Paul Walker as Lewis Thomas
- Steve Zahn as Fuller Thomas
- Leelee Sobieski as Venna
- Ted Levine as Rusty Nail (voice) (uncredited)
- Michael McCleery as Officer Akins
- Dell Yount as Gas Station Mechanic
- Rachel Singer as Gas Station Manager
- Jim Beaver as Sheriff Ritter
- Jessica Bowman as Charlotte
- Stuart Stone as Danny, Lewis' Roommate
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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