# Radio Killer (2001)

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**Original title**: *Joy Ride*
**Runtime**: 97 min
**Genres**: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
**Directed by**: John Dahl
**Written by**: J.J. Abrams, Clay Tarver
**Starring**: Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman, Stuart Stone, Basil Wallace

> *It started as a joke. Now the joke is on them.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Desert highway at dusk a CB radio crackles. 
A road trip turns deadly. 
John Dahl directs a tense thriller.

**Mood tags**: paranoid

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