Joyride
When we feel lost, finding our way home takes a little help.
12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they've raised in her name. Grabbing the cash, Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. A straight-talking solicitor who didn't expect to get pregnant, Joy is struggling with motherhood and planning to give her baby to a friend who will raise the child as her own. She joins Mully on a wild journey across Ireland, stealing cars, hitch-hiking, catching ferries and breaking police barricades.
- Year: 2022
- Country: Ireland
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
- Studio: Embankment Films, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Subotica, Ingenious Media
- Keyword: runaway, motherly love, on the run, single mother, ireland, stealing car, british pub, death of mother, stolen cars, hitchhiking, runaway child, deadbeat dad, stolen cash, joyride, ferry, father son conflict, newborn baby, breastfeeding, adult child friendship, singing child, runaway woman, solicitor, unexpected pregnancy, absent father, irish, rural ireland, car, police checkpoint
- Director: Emer Reynolds
- Cast: Olivia Colman, Charlie Reid, Lochlann O'Mearáin, Olwen Fouéré, Florence Adebambo, Tommy Tiernan
