The drive to nowhere

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Movie
German title The drive to nowhere
Original title Joyride
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Quinton Peeples
script Quinton Peeples
production John Juhlin
Laurent Zilber
camera S. Douglas Smith
occupation

The journey into nowhere ( English Joyride ) is a film drama that was staged in 1996 by director Quinton Peeples based on his book.

content

In the provincial town of Coleman, college student JT helps his father at the rundown Lone Star Motel after school . One day an elegant woman named Smith, dressed in black, moves into one of the apartments. JT has her eye on the blonde Tanya of the same age, who lives with her father Harold in the apartment next to Smith and constantly receives male visits. At night, JT, his colored friend James and Tanya meet for a nude bath and drink beer at the motel pool and make friends. The following day, Smith goes to town and brings Dr. Brewer, who is accused of sexual abuse of many of his patients, is shot in the head. When James' car doesn't start in the evening, JT sneaks into the showering Smith's apartment and steals her car key. Together with Tanya, the three of them take a jaunt to a popular swimming lake, but in the trunk they find the corpse of Dr. Brewer. James tries to inform the police, but JT sees a chance to keep the car to himself as Smith will not report it as stolen. The corpse of Dr. Brewer then sink them in the lake. On the way back they meet Redhead Joey, who is constantly teasing James and JT in college. He damages their car, but with Tanya's help is overwhelmed by the two of them. They hide Smith's wrecked car in a garage.

The following day, anglers discovered Brewer's body. Investigative Detective Lopez is puzzled because the professionally executed murder and the amateurish removal of the corpse do not go together. When JT, James and Tanya are discussing how to proceed at the motel, Smith approaches her and demands that her car be returned by evening, otherwise she will begin murdering her loved ones. At that moment the police arrive at the motel. To Detective Lopez, Smith poses as JT's aunt. During the day, Tanya's father Harold appears with the mayor of Coleman and sends him to Tanya's apartment, where he is turned on by Tanya. The excited mayor is violent and wants to rape Tanya. At that moment, Smith enters the room and knocks the mayor down. She promises to take care of Tanya if she shoots the man. Harold storms the room with a drawn Polaroid camera to catch Tanya and the mayor red-handed and blackmail them with the photo. However, he photographs Tanya, who threatens the mayor with a gun. Finally, Smith shoots the mayor, locks Harold in the bathroom and takes the photo as additional leverage.

In the meantime, JT has repainted the car and hidden it in another garage. Harold is arrested by the police and protests his innocence. James locates the car's new hiding place and brings Smith, who is escaping the motel, there. There they meet JT and Tanya. When Tanya is supposed to kill the two men, she only pretends to shoot them and they both pretend to be dead. On the outskirts, Smith sets the car on fire and tells Tanya that she would have killed her if Tanya had really killed them.

Production and publication

Directed by Quinton Peeples, the film was produced by Trillion Entertainment. Jon Juhlin was the producer and Steven Douglas Smith was in charge of the camera. Cindy Parisotto was responsible for the editing.

The film was released in US cinemas in 1996 and the 17-track soundtrack was released by Warner Brothers in 1997. This was followed by releases on VHS (1997) and DVD (2002) in the USA, and the film was also released on commercial media in the Netherlands, Great Britain and Canada. In 1997 Lebanese television broadcast the film. In October 2006 a German version was released on DVD by Koch Media under the title Die Fahrt ins Nirgendwo .

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