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Joy Ride: An Auto Theft (1976)
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Val & Tim swipe Randall's car to enjoy a little harmless spin. Buoyed by their increased status and mobility, they convince their girlfriends to hop in. However, as the road takes a twist, the joy ride takes a similar turn...to DISASTER! full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Heavy-handed But Effective 70s Juvenile Ed film moreCast
(Credited cast) | Kari Markussen | ||
| Victoria Paige Meyerink | (as Victoria Meyerink) | |
| Tim Palladino | ||
| Val Thorgusen |
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Revealing mistakes: The film starts with one of the boys playing pinball. As the camera shows the machine, you can see that the scores are both zero, even though it looks and sounds like the game is being played. moreFAQ
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At 13 minutes, this short is a predictable and fairly amateurish "crime never pays" morality tale, but it does pack a punch, particularly at the end. The acting is pure 70s novice, but one of the girlfriend actors freaks out pretty effectively as the joyride slowly morphs into a death march into the side of a mountain. If you saw this in school, I bet you remember it (I haven't seen it in 27 years but it has stayed with me for some reason). Not as gory as the DEATH ON THE HIGHWAY or FACES OF DEATH series, this is still clearly intended to scare kids into good road behavior. I don't know if it curbed car theft but it probably did decrease some children's desire to be in cars going around sharp mountain turns.