![]() She tells him she and his mother were in the same class at school, Joy one of the brightest and Rita extremely beautiful. While waiting for the next ferry, Mully even helps Joy learn how to breastfeed Robin (she thought up the name upon seeing a robin alight nearby), as he observed with his infant sibling. However, when a police checkpoint goes wrong, she changes her mind about the ferry, swapping for another car. When queried, he explains about the hospice money, and Joy shares her plans to give up the baby to her friend Mags and then fly to Lanzarote, as she hasn't bonded with the baby and doesn't know who the father is.Ĭalling James from the petrol station, Mully is convinced by his father to head for a ferry, which Joy initially rejects. As they walk to get more petrol, Mully proposes they take turns asking and answering questions. Mully accidentally hits a fox, and then Joy has to run it over to put it out of its misery. As this odd couple travels, they bond, quarrelling and then developing a sort of mother-son dynamic. Joy and Mully take the backroads to remain undetected as he is an unlicensed driver, and they could be stopped by the law. ![]() They swap the taxi for a car in a used car lot. Joy, clearly overwhelmed by her needy newborn, seeing Mully's ease at caring for her child (he'd been helping care for a baby sibling at home), proposes they travel together. Suddenly he realises there are passengers in the back seat. The boy grabs the cash and drives off in a taxi, planning to give it back. His dad insists she would have wanted him to have it, to use to pay for his own debts. Mully's mother Rita has just died of cancer, and he confronts his thieving father James who has just pinched the cancer hospice money from the collection jar at her celebration of life gathering at the pub. ![]() Set in County Kerry, Ireland, this road movie is centred on 13-year-old Mully who's just lost his mother, and Joy, a solicitor, and her newborn baby. It had its world premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh on 5 July 2022 and was released on 29 July 2022, by Vertigo Releasing. Joy Ride will be released in UK cinemas on 4 August.Joyride is an Irish-British coming-of-age comedy film directed by Emer Reynolds from a screenplay by Ailbhe Keogan. It’s not easy being funny, but we have faith in Lim and her charismatic cast. This will be Lim’s feature film directorial debut, and it looks like it will be trial by fire as she tackles one of the most challenging genres to nail. Joy Ride is written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao and directed by Adele Lim, best known for writing Crazy Rich Asians and Raya and the Last Dragon. These types of raucous comedies have usually been reserved for male ensemble casts, so it’s fun to see a slight variation to the old formula. Joy Ride is produced by none other than Seth Rogen, which isn’t all that surprising because it’s clear from the trailer alone that Joy Ride trades exclusively in his kind of comedy. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.” When Audrey’s (Ashley Park) business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo (Sherry Cola), her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess Kat (Stephanie Hsu), her college friend turned Chinese soap star and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), Lolo’s eccentric cousin. ![]() The official synopsis reads: “The hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery centres on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. The foursome gets into all kinds of trouble, including having to ingest many drugs to avoid imprisonment and pretending to be K-Pop stars.Ĭheck out the laugh-out-loud funny trailer below. The film stars Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Hsu, and Sabrina Wu as four friends trekking across China. Stephanie Hsu may have lost the golden man to fellow cast member Jamie Lee Curtis at this year’s Oscars, but things are nevertheless looking up for the actress as Lionsgate has revealed the new trailer for Joy Ride. The first trailer for Joy Ride, a wild new comedy from Adele Lim, teases a road trip across China.
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