Review: ‘Joy Ride,’ starring Ashely Park and Stephanie Hsu, never quite commits to the bit.
, is the happy Zillenial child of those two blockbusters, a processing and reworking that stands proudly in its own present day.
That is an at least partially understandable choice. Light and wild as the movie often is, there is serious matter at its core.plays Audrey, a striving lawyer living in her hometown, a quaint and largely white exurb of Seattle. As a baby, Audrey was adopted from China by white parent; her only connection to her Chinese roots has come through her oldest and best friend, Lolo , the only other Asian kid in town.
That stark difference comes to a head when Audrey brings Lolo on an important business trip to Beijing, where Audrey must secure a big deal in order to make partner at her firm. Lolo is there to translate, but of course she’s also there to shake Audrey out of her white-bread stiffness.
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