Warning: This post contains spoilers for Joy RideJoy Ride has several familiar faces in its cast, but its biggest surprise cameo has a special movie connection that makes it even better. Directed by Adele Lim from a screenplay by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao, Joy Ride has a stacked cast that includes Stephanie Hsu of Everything Everywhere All At Once. Following a group of friends on their trip to China, the characters have an unexpected adventure.

Joy Ride shakes up the raunchy comedy genre, adding depth by way of conversations about, and the exploration of, one’s identity. Ashley Park’s Audrey heads to China on a work trip, but what she ends up finding out about her birth mother in Joy Ride’s ending changes her outlook. Her journey is helped by someone who should be a stranger to her, but gives her access to her birth mother in...