Joy Ride (2023) on Netflix
Audrey, adopted from China, flies there to close a career-making deal with best friend Lolo, Lolo's cousin Deadeye and college friend Kat. The businessman insists on knowing her birth family.
- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb6.4/1031,696 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes90%
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Plot summary
Audrey Sullivan grew up in White Hills, Washington, adopted by Joe and Mary Sullivan, with Lolo Chen her best friend since childhood. Audrey is a lawyer at a prestigious firm, and she is told she will make partner if she lands a deal with a Chinese businessman, so she flies to China with Lolo. Also along is Lolo's cousin Vanessa, known as Deadeye and obsessed with K-pop, and in Beijing the pair join Kat, Audrey's college roommate, who now acts on a daytime television series. The businessman, Chao, will only do business with Audrey if he learns about the birth family she has never met.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Joy Ride (2023)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Ashley Park landed the lead role of Audrey in Joy Ride after Daniel Dae Kim, who had worked with her on Broadway, suggested her for the part while he was working with director Adele Lim on Raya and the Last Dragon.
- For the scene where the characters pretend to be an idol group, the writers weighed an original song but settled on "WAP", and director Adele Lim wrote to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion for permission to use it, which they granted.
- A playground built as a lewd set for the film in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, was spotted there, but the sequence filmed for it was cut from the finished movie.
