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Joy Ride

Year:

2001

Duration:

97 min

Genres:

Mystery | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.6

Director:

John Dahl

Awards:

1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2001-10-05

Filming Locations: Santa Clarita, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $23,000,000

Opening Weekend: $7,347,259 (USA) (7 October 2001)

Gross: $21,973,182 (USA) (6 January 2002)

Cast

Actor

Character

Leelee Sobieski

Joy Ride

Jessica Bowman

Joy Ride

Steve Zahn

Fuller Thomas

Paul Walker

Lewis Thomas

Stuart Stone

Danny, Lewis' Roommate

Basil Wallace

Car Salesman

Brian Leckner

Officer Keeney

Mary Wickliffe

Salt Lake City Police Desk Clerk

McKenzie Satterthwaite

Assistant Salt Lake City Police Desk Clerk

Dell Yount

Gas Station Mechanic

Kenneth White

Ronald Ellinghouse

Luis Cortés

Night Manager (as Luis Cortes)

Michael McCleery

Officer Akins

Jim Beaver

Sheriff Ritter

Rachel Singer

Gas Station Manager

Satch Huizenga

Ice Truck Man

Terry Leonard

Bartender

James MacDonald

Local in Nebraska Bar

Gwenda Deacon

Truck Stop Waitress

Robert Winley

Truck Stop Manager

Ali Gage

Waitress

Jack Moore

Hotwire Consultant

Hugh Dane

Man at Door

Lee Stepp

Traveling Salesman

Jay Hernandez

Marine

Huey Redwine

Policeman #1

John Maynard

Policeman #2

Peter Weireter

Policeman #3

Tim Cooney

Voice Actor (voice)

Sheryl Giffis

Voice Actor (voice)

Pamela Senatore

Voice Actor (voice)

Chris Cummins

Deputy (uncredited)

Walton Goggins

Cop (DVD additional footage)

Matthew Kimbrough

Rusty Nail

Ted Levine

Rusty Nail

Anna Malle

Porn Actress on Cable TV (uncredited)

Chuck Murphy

Medic (uncredited)

Patrick Robert Smith

Cop

Vern Urich

Officer Alexander

Brien Varady

Paramedic (DVD additional footage) (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Leelee Sobieski ended up filming two different romantic interludes, one with Steve Zahn and one with Paul Walker during the shooting and re-shooting of the film. Both scenes ended up getting cut.

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In the ending where Rusty Nail's truck explodes, you can see a water tower behind the truck as it burns. The original intention was to have the truck hit the water tower and have the water come down and put the flames out so that it would be believable if Rusty Nail survived. However, time constraints kept the scene from being filmed. The water tower cost over $100,000.

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As Lewis is looking at his map in the car, his finger follows the road from Red Rock past Green River and down SW. Director John Dahl's earlier motel based thriller was Red Rock West (1993).

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Goofs

In the climax, a crew member's hand-held two-way radio with red and green lights is sitting on top of an abandoned box/crate Lewis retrieves to rescue Fuller off the fence.

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When Lewis and Fuller first make contact with Rusty Nail on the CB, as the camera cuts back and forth between Lewis and Fuller in the car, the door lock on Lewis's side of the car is alternately up and down.

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When Fuller first starts using the CB, a shot of the face plate of the CB shows that the radio is on ch 19 and the band selector is set to USB (upper side band). It should be set to AM for the ch 19 that truckers use.

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Quotes

Rusty Nail: Now they know what it feels like... to be the butt-end of the joke. Your palms sweating, your face burning up. Now they know what it's like... to be the fucking punch line.

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Fuller Thomas: All right, no cops 'til Jamestown. Free to speed like a mother fucker for like the next 40 miles or so.

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Lewis Thomas: You should call home every once in a while. You know, when you don't need bail money?

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Faq

In the end is Rusty Nail dead or alive?

Rusty Nail is alive. The body the police found in the truck was not his. Earlier in the movie he hit the Ice truck driven by the guy who returned Lewis's Mastercard. At the end of the movie, the police say the body is that of "some guy who drove for an Ice company in Wyoming." Rusty Nail kept the body of the guy he hit, then switched bodies to make his getaway.

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