Tag: Teresa Hsiao
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‘Joyride’: The Main Characters, Ranked by Likability
Joy Ride, directed by Adele Kim, joins the ranks of thrilling and wild friends’ trip movies The Hangover and Girl’s Trip. In the movie, friends, Lolo (Sherry Cola), Audrey (Ashley Park), and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), travel to China for Audrey’s business trip. Along the way, they meet up with Aubrey’s old friend, Kat (Stephanie Hsu),…
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Adele Lim Had to Cut a Major Scene from ‘Joy Ride’ Because Water Buffalo ‘Don’t Take Direction’
After proving that Asian actors were more than capable of carrying a movie to a massive box office haul with “Crazy Rich Asians” (which she co-wrote), Lim went in a much raunchier direction for her directorial debut. Her SXSW hit “Joy Ride,” which follows a group of four messy, oft-horny friends taking a trip to…
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Stephanie Hsu on The Queer Storyline Cut from ‘Joy Ride’
There’s so much good in Joy Ride, but when you’ve got a screenplay from ace writers like Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao and a lead ensemble loaded with hugely talented comedic actors like Stephanie Hsu, Sabrina Wu, Sherry Cola, and Ashley Park, there’s bound to be some gems that just can’t be squeezed into the…
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‘Joy Ride’ Review: A Delightful and Irreverent Girls’ Trip Full of Laughs and Raunchiness
Adele Lim’s new girls’ trip film, Joy Ride, is destined to join the ranks of iconic comedy movies like The Hangover and Bridesmaids. Complete with crude humor, raunchy sex scenes, and full-frontal, this movie is definitely not for everyone but it dives deeper than movies of its ilk while also not shying away from the…
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Adele Lim’s R-Rated Comedy ‘Joy Ride’ Was Originally Called ‘Joy F— Club’
The working title for Adele Lim’s new comedy “Joy Ride” was “Joy Fuck Club.”It’s a profane callback to “The Joy Luck Club,” a multigenerational family saga that broke ground. But if “Joy Ride” builds on the legacy set by that landmark 1993 film in that nearly all of its cast is Asian, the similarities between…