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Joyride (2022)

07/29/2022Comedy, Drama, Crime1h 34m
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When we feel lost, finding our way home takes a little help.

Overview

12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they've raised in her name. Grabbing the cash, Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. A straight-talking solicitor who didn't expect to get pregnant, Joy is struggling with motherhood and planning to give her baby to a friend who will raise the child as her own. She joins Mully on a wild journey across Ireland, stealing cars, hitch-hiking, catching ferries and breaking police barricades.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Olivia Colman

    Joy

  2. Charlie Reid

    Mully

  3. Cast 1

    Lochlann Ó Mearáin

    James

  4. Cast 1

    Olwen Fouéré

    Sideline Sue

  5. Cast 1

    Florence Adebambo

    Catherine

  6. Cast 1

    Tommy Tiernan

    Ferryman

  7. Cast 1

    David Pearse

    Showband Singer

  8. Cast 1

    Ruth McCabe

    Noreen

  9. Cast 1

    Aislín McGuckin

    Angela

OK, so luck does play a disproportionately big role in this rather far-fetched comedy drama, but all of that is redeemed by two really quite engaging performances from Olivia Coleman and Charlie Reid. The latter is a young lad who doesn't like the idea that his roguish father is about to appropriate some charity money, so absconds with it in a stolen taxi. Unbeknown to him though, his cab already has two passengers - "Joy" (Colman) and a young baby. What now ensues are some fun escapades as the young man realises that his middle-aged passenger - who is dressed in a fetching air-hostess yellow ...