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  • Actors: Steve Zahn, Paul Walker
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 17 Feb 2003
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00007LZ58
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,953 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Director John Dahl has made more ingenious thrillers than Roadkill, but few with quite its sense of terrible consequences arising from a minor prank. On a road trip, jailbird Fuller (Steve Zahn) persuades his younger, student brother Lewis (Paul Walker) to pretend to be a girl on a CB radio; they set a pushy trucker up with a date with an obnoxious guest at the motel where they stay for the night. The results are far from funny--the guest ends up dead and they find themselves being chased for a while by a large sinister truck. And then, when they have picked up Veena (Leelee Sobieski), the girl with whom Lewis is in love, it all gets worse, much worse.

Dahl has picked up on one of the most sinister aspects of hostage situations, which is that quite minor concessions in negotiation can often be more meaningful than they seem. If the film has a weakness it is that the irresponsibility of the two young men is eminently plausible and not especially sympathetic, and the trucker, rather like the faceless driver in Steven Spielberg's Duel, is never more than a monstrous force of nature. Along the way, though, Roadkill delivers an appropriate number of thrills and sudden reversals, which all makes for an exciting journey into terror.

On the DVD: Roadkill on disc has commentaries by the director, by the writers and by stars Steve Zahn and Leelee Sobieski; it also has a fascinating wealth of alternate endings including one in which the whole third act of the movie goes in a radically different direction. It has a widescreen anamorphic visual ratio 2.35:1 and vibrant Dolby 5.1 sound that pumps up the tension in some crucial scenes. --Roz Kaveney



Special Features

3 X Audio Commentaries - Director John Dahl, Writers JJ Abrams and Clay Tavernier and Steve Zahn and Leelee Sobieski
5 Deleted scenes and Alternate Endings
Featurette "Joyride"
"More Than One Rusty Nail"
Theatrical Trailer
Aspect Ratio: 16 x 9 2:35
Sound Quality: English 5.1 Surround Sound
Subtitles: English for impaired hearing, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hugarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese, Swedish, Turkish
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars **** JOY RIDE ****, 4 Jan 2003
By Mr. N. Carnegie (Kirkcaldy, Scotland, UK.) - See all my reviews
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Directed by John Dahl, previously best known for Red Rock West and The Last Seduction (the movie that launched Linda Fiorentino's career), Roadkill is very much a homage to the seventies Spielberg movie Duel but rather than being just a cheap rip-off Joy Ride is in fact a very entertaining, genuinely scary edge of the seat ride, which proves that you don't need a big budget to make great movies.

THE PLOT: The film's instantly likeable hero, Lewis, played by Paul Walker (The Fast and The Furious) a scholarship student at Berkeley, buys a battered 1971 car so he can pick up Venna (Leelee Sobieski), who he has a major crush for, from the University of Colorado and drive her to the East Coast for summer vacation. However, on the way he unexpectedly has to pick up his irresponsible older brother Fuller (the always excellent Steve Zahn) who's in a Salt Lake City jail on a drunk-and-disorderly charge. During the journey Fuller buys a cheap CB radio and involves Lewis in an unpleasant practical joke at the expense of a truck driver with the CB handle 'Rusty Nail' but they find themselves in fear for their lives when old Rusty turns out to be a psychopath who takes a violent dislike to them. From then on, they themselves become the objects of the unseen Rusty Nail's revenge. After several hair-raising encounters, they resolve not to tell Venna of their adventures when they pick her up at the clean, well-lit Colorado campus.

It would be easy to criticise Roadkill (known as Joy Ride in America). Its premise is hardly original and its reliance on a CB radio as a plot device harks back to the seventies, rather than the present day when everybody (except in this movie) has a cell phone. However, Roadkill is actually a stunning success due to its faultless direction, which creates Hitchcock like suspense and provides many heart stopping moments. The script is excellent too combining and balancing humour and horror in equal measures, often hinting at violence that is not actually seen and providing nervous moments of humour whilst avoiding corniness. As for the three leads they are perfectly cast with Paul Walker, minus the blonde beach boy locks he sported in The Fast and the Furious, making a good fist of the part of the boy from the wrong side of the tracks in love with the girl from the right side of the tracks played by the equally impressive Leelee Sobieski (Deep Impact). Steve Zahn (Out of Sight) as the misfit brother Fuller is also excellent and he steals many of the scenes with witty one-liners but ultimately this is a movie whose strength lies in the sum of all its parts. Cheaply made it shows that its not big budgets that make great movies its talent and imagination. Here's hoping there's a sequel! Four stars, well merited. ****

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A modern day Duel..., 25 Feb 2008
By D. Bibb "Crimson Ghost" (Birmingham,UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Joy Ride [DVD] [2002] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
This is called Road kill in UK.
Story is about a guy who wants to impress a future girlfriend by taking her on a road trip,but also he needs to pick up his brother on the way there from jail before hand.They by a cb radio and play up a lonely trucker,who ends up to be a whacko...He's on there case.That's all I'll tell you of the story line.
I enjoyed it and the story holds you.My dvd contained a bonus of other endings.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars What you want to know about this film, 2 Aug 2005
Roadkill, personally i dont think that it is the best of films but when you watch it for the first time it keeps the tension going through out the entire film. You will be really shocked at how tense you will actually get through out the course of the film.
I am very sad to say though that it is no way near as good watching it a second time. It is the kind of film that when you watch it more than once it gets really boring.

I strongly recomend that you watch it if you havn't seen it before, but if I was you I would think again about buying it.

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