Movie #3046 "Joyride" (Hulu) I saw this in passing and wrote it down to come back to it because I thought it looked interesting and had Olivia Coleman, one of my favorites, in it. And it was an interesting watch. This movie ended up to a nice variation on a road trip film. This time a 12 year old kid (grieving for his dead mom) rums away from his abusive father, and with the street smarts he has, he steals a cab and drives it away, not knowing a mother and her new baby are in the backseat. The two, of courses grow to like each other (there's one weird scene where because the boy has had to take care of his little brothers and sisters, he has the knowledge of breast-feeding that this mother does not --- so he shows her how to do it --- odd scene but it worked) Mom has all kind of baggage --- not planning on keeping the baby through most of the film, so you can see the conflicts that arise from this ride to "who knows where" for both of them. It really becomes an excellent piece on what post partum mothers go through, and it has a nice emotional ending. I'd give it a 4. It's tough in parts, though.
"JOYRIDE" 2022 1 HOUR AND 34 MINS
A headstrong solicitor's plan to offload her new born baby to her sister, is derailed when a vulnerable but opinionated teenager steals their taxi.
Director: Emer Reynolds
Writer: Alibi Keogen
Actors: Olivia Coleman, Charlie Reid, Lochlann O'Mearain
No comments:
Post a Comment