Joyride (1977)

This film runs like a less amusing version of Albert Brooks’s Lost in America. Californians Desi Arnaz Jr., Robert Carradine, and Melanie Griffith misguidedly move to Alaska with the foolish notion that it will only take a short while before they are making an easy living as salmon fishers. Reality quickly sets in and before they know it, they are broke and struggling at jobs not much different than they were working in California. The three leads are appealing in their continued optimism, but it’s hard not to get frustrated by their constant stupidity as they aimlessly jump from one misadventure to the next.