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Joy Ride

Name: Joy Ride
Director: John Dahl
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Released: 2001-10-05
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman, Stuart Stone

2001 · 1h 37m · Mystery, Thriller, Drama

IMDb 6.6 Metacritic 75 RT 74%

If you're craving a taut, clever thriller with a killer premise (literally), Joy Ride delivers the goods—the CB radio cat-and-mouse game is genuinely inventive and suspenseful. Watch it tonight if you want straightforward genre thrills without pretension.

Plot

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: John Dahl

Cast: Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman, Stuart Stone

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