Joy Ride 1 🎥 2001 Movie Info

Plot Summary

While traveling from California to Colorado to pick up his childhood friend and crush Venna, Lewis Thomas reluctantly stops in Salt Lake City after he learns his estranged brother Fuller has been arrested. Lewis bails him out and Fuller tags along for the ride. Fuller has a CB radio installed in Lewis’s car and the two begin listening in on truckers’ chatter. Fuller coaxes Lewis into playing a prank on a truck driver nicknamed Rusty Nail, asking him to pretend to be a woman named Candy Cane. They set up a meeting with Rusty Nail in a motel where Lewis and Fuller are spending the night; they tell Rusty Nail that Candy Cane will be in room 17, the room of a disrespectful businessman with whom Fuller had an encounter at the front desk.

When Rusty Nail arrives, the brothers listen from the adjoining room; an argument and sounds of a scuffle are briefly heard. The next morning, Lewis and Fuller learn that the police found the businessman on the highway, leaving him in a coma with his lower jaw ripped off. Lewis admits they were involved and Sheriff Ritter accosts them for their role in the incident, but lets them go. Back on the road near Laramie, Wyoming, Rusty Nail is heard again on the radio looking for Candy Cane. Lewis reveals the prank to Rusty Nail and Rusty Nail demands an apology, but Fuller insults him instead.

Rusty Nail then notes they should get their taillight fixed, indicating he is following them. They drive to a nearby gas station and unsuccessfully attempt to contact Sheriff Ritter. Seeing an ice truck pull into the gas station, they flee from the scene into a dead end, with the truck driver chasing them. The driver turns out to be a kind stranger trying to return Lewis’s credit card, which he left behind in panic.

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