When Teresa Hsiao (“Family Guy”), Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (“Family Guy”) and Adele Lim (“Crazy Rich Asians”) set out to write “Joy Ride,” the aim was to develop a story that they wished they could have had seen in their twenties.“Joy Ride” sees Lim transition from writer to director in this “Girls Trip” meets “The Hangover” ride of a film where Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola, and Sabrina Wu follow Ashley Park’s Audrey across the world on a business trip to Asia.
Things go awry when she has to track down her birth mother to close a huge business deal.The writers wanted a film that would show young Asian women having fun and being messy, smashing past narratives of Asian women as exotic fetishes.
This was a story they wanted to tell on their terms.Says Lim, “It’s a crazy bananas movie and you don’t know how it
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