A new R-rated comedy arrives in theaters first, but here is where and when Joy Ride will release on streaming afterward. The new movie directed by Adele Lim, who is best known as the writer of Crazy Rich Asians and Raya and the Last Dragon, follows a group of friends as they travel to China. The movie follows Audrey Sullivan (Ashley Park) and her best friend Lolo (Sherry Cola) as they go overseas to find Audrey's birth mother. The R-rated female-led comedy also features Everything Everywhere All At Once breakout star Stephanie Hsu as a key character in the Joy Ride cast.

Although movie theaters are now dominated by superhero movies and franchise fare, Joy Ride is an example of the original movies that various studios are still making with theatrical audiences in mind. Comedies in particular have become increasingly less common on their own, as Lionsgate's The Blackening...