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  • 2021
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2021
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 10 m

Summary Frenemies and veteran comedians Dana Gould and Bobcat Goldthwait, having learned very little from their near-fatal car accident, get back on the road and journey throughout the American South. The documentary captures the duo as they carefully navigate highways and their decades-old contentious friendship; reflecting upon their careers a...

Directed By: Bobcat Goldthwait

  • 2021
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2021
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 10 m

Joy Ride

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Summary Frenemies and veteran comedians Dana Gould and Bobcat Goldthwait, having learned very little from their near-fatal car accident, get back on the road and journey throughout the American South. The documentary captures the duo as they carefully navigate highways and their decades-old contentious friendship; reflecting upon their careers a...

Directed By: Bobcat Goldthwait

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75
Oct 29, 2021
Joy Ride is the perfect example of “less is more.” One imagines there could be a three-hour cut of these adventures, but who needs that? This feels like the best bits from the bunch, and Goldthwait is economical in his pacing.
By Dan Mecca FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 28, 2021
These are two middle-aged guys having a good time, by looking forward and backward and, most of all, just by being in the moment. It’s a pleasure to ride along.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 28, 2021
There’s a humility and generosity of spirit in their work here — testy as it sometimes is — that plays like a breath of fresh air in an era of “cancel culture” and those hellbent on testing it.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 28, 2021
Some of the material feels fairly standard, as they share misfit upbringings and showbiz gossip, but each veteran comedian lends an unpredictable element through self-deprecating candor.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW
63
Oct 29, 2021
This one is a mostly likable effort, but it doesn't quite feel like a self-contained movie with a shape and a discernible point; it's more of a collection of material arranged in a way that more or less makes sense.
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Production Company Kowtow Productions, Left/Right, Not Pictured
Release Date Oct 29, 2021
Duration 1 h 10 m
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