Joy Ride (2023) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
An Asian adoptee raised by white parents, Audrey is a high-achieving lawyer whose promotion depends on closing a deal with Chao. She travels with Lolo, Kat, and Deadeye to find her birth family, loses...
Audrey’s Asian childhood best friend and cousin of Deadeye, Lolo supports herself through sex-positive art and struggles financially. She lies to Chao about Audrey’s birth family, organizes the search...
Audrey’s college roommate and close friend, Kat is an actress on a popular daytime show. Although she was sexually promiscuous in college, she is engaged to Clarence, who is saving himself for marriag...
Lolo’s socially awkward cousin, Deadeye is obsessed with K-pop and travels with Audrey, Lolo, and Kat on their search for Audrey’s birth family. One of Deadeye’s online friends helps secure a private...
A Chinese businessman whose deal could earn Audrey a promotion to partner, Chao insists on knowing about her birth family before doing business with her. Audrey tries to satisfy that demand by locatin...
Dae is the husband of Audrey’s Korean birth mother. After Audrey learns that her mother has died, she visits the grave and meets Dae there. He shows her a video recorded before the death and explains...
A former NBA star whose team is playing in China, Baron Davis becomes involved when Lolo contacts him for help transporting the group. After Audrey, Lolo, Kat, and Deadeye cause sex- and dance-related...
Mary is one of Audrey Sullivan’s white adoptive parents and helps raise her in White Hills, Washington, with Joe Sullivan. She belongs to the family that gave Audrey her childhood home and upbringing,...
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
After Audrey learns that her birth mother has died, she meets Dae at the grave; Dae identifies himself through his connection to her birth mother and...
Audrey is promised a promotion if she can close a deal with Chao, a Chinese businessman.
Audrey is described as an Asian adoptee living with her white parents, including Mary Sullivan, in Washington.
Deadeye is explicitly introduced as Lolo's cousin.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Lolo contacts Baron Davis regarding his team while the group is stranded and seeking a way to reach the agency.
When the group is stranded in rural China, Lolo contacts former NBA star Baron Davis because his team is playing in China.
Lolo lies to Chao that Audrey is in close contact with her birth family, despite Audrey never having met them.
Kat and Deadeye remain with Audrey and Lolo during the train journey, the rural crossing, and the attempt to reach Korea.
Kat travels with Lolo as part of the four-person group, and Lolo livestreams their attempted idol performance involving Kat.
Deadeye joins Audrey and Lolo on the trip, and the four travel together to pursue Audrey's birth mother.
Audrey meets Kat in Beijing, and Kat is identified as her college roommate and close friend.
Audrey and Lolo are described as childhood best friends who travel together to China.
A chaotic journey about friendship, cultural identity, family origins, and rebuilding after public failure.
Directed by Adele Lim
Joy Ride (2023) · 6.5/10 · comedy
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