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Joy Ride (2001)

Directed by
John Dahl

Screenplay by
Clay Tarver and Jeffrey Abrams


John Dahl's Joy Ride is a lean and mean road movie, with three young folks going pedal-to-the-metal, trying to outdistance a psychotic truck driver bent on their destruction.


Venna Wilcox

Paul Walker (who was also behind the wheel in The Fast and the Furious) plays Lewis, a college student en route home after his freshman year. Along the way, he picks up two passengers. The first is his wild, ne'er-do-well brother, Fuller (Steve Zahn), whom he bails out of jail and reluctantly agrees to take home.

Later, Lewis stops more eagerly to give a ride to Venna (Leelee Sobieski). She's a long-time buddy, though Lewis is eager to move the relationship beyond the platonic level. Unfortunately, the frisky, irrepressible Fuller uses a CB radio to play irresponsible games with truck drivers. He encourages his baby brother to use his talent for mimicking a girl's voice to entice a driver nicknamed "Rusty Nail" to a sex rendezvous at a highway motel. Needless to say, no such rendezvous awaits. And hell hath no fury like a horny highwayman thwarted on the road to satisfaction. The rest of Joy Ride has our three reckless heroes doing their best to keep the raging Rusty Nail off their rear bumper.

  Director

John Dahl

Director and writer of "Kill Me Again" (1989), "The Last Seduction" (1994), "Rounders" (1998) and "Red Rock West" (1992).


  Also starring

Paul Walker
as Lewis Thomas

Paul William Walker IV was born on September 12th, 1973 in Glendale California. Paul began acting when he was very young. As a child, Paul starred in many commercials. In 1986, he played Professor Bennet in the movie, Monster in the Closet (1986). He then starred in the television series, "Throb" (1986). He also made guest appearances on several television shows including "Charles in Charge","Highway to Heaven" (1984), "Who's the Boss?" and "Diff'rent Strokes" (1978). Paul also had a role in the soap opera, "Young and the Restless, The" (1973). In 1987 Paul was cast in the film Programmed to Kill (1987) as the character Jason, and since then he has appeared in a steady stream of movies. Paul is definently a rising star and not only does he have good looks, charm, wit and excellent acting skills, he also majored in Marine Biology at a California community college.


Steve Zahn
as Fuller Thomas

Career kicked off in his native Minnesota when he crashed the audition of a local stage production of "Biloxi Blues" and won the lead role. Next trained at American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA; then moved to New York City where he won a role touring for 13 months in national company of Tommy Tune-directed version of "Bye Bye Birdie". Back in New York, he played opposite Ethan Hawke in "Sophistry" at Playwright's Horizon where Ben Stiller noticed him and cast him, and Hawke, in Reality Bites (1994).