Joy Ride
“It started as a joke. Now the joke is on them.”
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.
Genres
Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Studio
Regency Enterprises
Language
en
Status
Released
How Joy Ride performed
Budget
$23.0M
Worldwide Gross
$36.6M
Gross Profit
$13.6M
Return
1.6× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$6M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~47/53, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Mystery) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Fuller
Steve Zahn
Fuller
Lewis
Paul Walker
Lewis
Venna
Leelee Sobieski
Venna
Charlotte
Jessica Bowman
Charlotte
Danny (Lewis's Roommate)
Stuart Stone
Danny (Lewis's Roommate)
Car Salesman
Basil Wallace
Car Salesman
Officer Keeney
Brian Leckner
Officer Keeney
Salt Lake City Police Desk Clerk
Mary Wickliffe
Salt Lake City Police Desk Clerk
Asst. Salt Lake City Police Desk Clerk
McKenzie Satterthwaite
Asst. Salt Lake City Police Desk Clerk
Gas Station Mechanic
Dell Yount
Gas Station Mechanic
Ronald Ellinghouse
Kenneth White
Ronald Ellinghouse
Night Manager
Luis Cortés
Night Manager
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