Tom Schulman wrote the screenplays for What About Bob? Dead Poets Society and Honey I Shrunk The Kids. He got his start at the typewriter doing this little 1976 film with a big message that is still just as crucial today because kids are as irresponsible as ever when it comes to driving. There is drinking and driving and texting and driving and in this film it is auto theft and joy riding. This film is so 1970s. People leave theiir keys in the ignition and don't even bother to put on seat belts! Two Beavis and Butthead teenage boys steal a friends car and decide to go on a "joy ride". Of course it doesn't matter to them that they don't even have a license. To make matters worse they get two girls to go with them. The girls have doubts when they ask them to get in and you hope they make the right decision but no such luck. These kids are so dumb and immature you really don't particularly care about them or feel bad about their tragic fate in the end. They are being pursued by the police and end up crashing the car. The credits at the end mention this is based on a real life event and three of the kids were killed while the lone survivor was paralyzed for life. Play stupid games win stupid prizes people its as simple as that!
Review of Joy Ride: An Auto Theft
