Adele Lim’s debut film, Joy Ride, will make you cry your eyes out, in addition to showing the audience that women know how to party hard.
Written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong & Teresa Hsiao, the film stars Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola, and Sabrina Wu as four friends on a global adventure of self-discovery – but also drugs, sex, and comedy.
I expected nothing less from a movie that was originally titled Joy F**k Club, which I find hilarious. Audrey (Park) is an adoptee growing up in an all-white household, and Lolo’s (Cola) parents just moved from China.
Their friendship starts on the playground when Audrey is approached by a bully and Lolo punches him in the face. As adults, one is now an overachieving workaholic lawyer on the verge of a promotion, and the other is a slacking artist who makes art out of human private parts, looking to sell her pieces to the highest bidder.
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