A depressingly mediocre little film
Joyride
Would you kill for the ride of your life?
1997 · 1h 33m · R
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Quinton Peeples
Overview
A bored motel clerk and his buddies go for a little joy ride in a woman's car. They don't realize until it is too late that she is a paid assassin and that her latest victim is in the trunk. Thus begins the clerk's descent into a shadowy world of lies and murder.
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