![]() He somehow finds a note of realistic goofiness he's funny, but you believe he's like this all the time. Later, when the guy in Room 18 is found in the middle of the road in a coma and Fuller is talking to the police, he says he heard a noise like-well, you have to hear Zahn performing it. The device of the never-seen enemy is particularly effective here, as Rusty Nail pounds on the door of the neighbor, there are some indistinct voices, and then a long silence. The practical jokers are next door in Room 18. ''She'' says she'll be in Room 17 of a roadside motel-which, Lewis and Fuller know, will be occupied by a customer who's a particularly obnoxious racist. As Candy Cane, Lewis makes a date with a trucker named Rusty Nail. Fuller, who has a gift for attracting trouble, and another gift for seeking it out when it doesn't come to him, talks Lewis into buying a $40 citizen's band radio (''kind of a prehistoric internet''), and then eggs him into imitating a woman's voice on the air. The plot has already tightened its screws. This evens the score, I guess, for the mountains that were in the background in " Rumble In The Bronx". No matter. Then it's on to Boulder, while we have lots of time to wonder why the movie spends so much time repeating that Venna goes to Boulder, Boulder, Boulder-only to show us an absolutely flat neocolonial campus with no mountains in the background. Lewis makes a detour along the way-to Salt Lake City, where his feckless brother Fuller ( Steve Zahn, with a ''What? Me Worry?'' expression) needs to be bailed out on drunk charges. Ordinarily the Newport would be a convertible it needs to be a hardtop this time, so they can be trapped inside. There's a spikiness to the script and a spark to the interactions that means even as the roadblocks and the physical route start to make less sense, this is still a funny, warm, and watchable film that doesn't run out of gas.True to the Ebert's Little Movie Glossary entry, which explains that all movie heroes on cross-country journeys drive gas-guzzling classics, Lewis buys a 1971 Chrysler Newport (most of the cars since 1980 look nerdy). But the story speeds along at an easy pace and the blossoming relationship between the mismatched leads never gets tired. There's a predictability to how the plot unfolds, and a danger of coming across judgmental toward Joy's decision to give up her child. ![]() ![]() He calls Colman's Joy "Vodka Tonic" because that's what she orders at the bar, and the two give as good as they get in their slanging matches through the country roads. Reid is a revelation as the multilayered Mully, showing great depth in his first feature role as a wayward teen with an old soul kept going by an impish glint and a sharp tongue. Joyride also has enough heart and humor to navigate its mature themes and potentially controversial take on motherhood through the occasional bumps in the road. This Irish drama is kept on track by the strong performances and natural chemistry between Colman and newcomer Reid. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Strong language is featured throughout, including "f-k" and "s-t." While some of the content is mature, the film also has a fun odd couple road trip element that is full of warmth and humor. There are also scenes where a child is in danger of drowning at sea. A physical fight takes place between a man and women and his son is pushed aside roughly when he tries to help. Adult characters drink and smoke, and one is seen intoxicated. The mature themes include domestic abuse, as well as adoption, death of mothers, cancer, absent parents, and passing references to kidnapping, Romanian orphanages, and child trafficking. Mully is on the run after trying to stop his father stealing charity money. Olivia Colman plays Joy, who is on her way to have her newborn baby adopted by a friend when her taxi is stolen by teenager Mully (Charlie Reid). Parents need to know that Joyride is an excellent Irish drama - about an unlikely friendship between a new mother and a 12-year-old boy on the run - with strong language and mature themes.
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