Joyride (1977 film)

1977 film by Joseph Ruben Joyride is a 1977 adventure film directed by Joseph Ruben, and written by Ruben and Peter Rainer. Plot Scott and the couple John and Suzie go to Alaska to make money salmon fishing. They enter a bar and the two men get drunk. Suzie meets an older man working for the oil pipeline who says he can get all three of them a job. The older man gives Suzie his card while Scott and John sleep off their drunkenness. The next morning, they find their car has been broken into and robbed. Desperate for money, the two men land pipeline jobs with the older man's help; Suzy gets a waitressing job. They walk out of a food market with a shopping cart of unpaid-for meat while it is being robbed. Scott goes to a bar and meets Cindy, but gets turned off when Cindy asks Scott for money to go home with her. Scott then buys three pistols, and all three spend the day improving their shooting abilities. Scott pulls a gun on his coworkers to stop them from robbing the pipeline of equipment. Scott is fired and John is threatened off his job the next day. Suzie quits her job because she keeps getting groped by her employer. All three are forced out of their apartment. Cindy and Scott