Road Trip [2000]

Road Trip [2000]Full Story Summary :-

The movie begins with Barry (Tom Green) giving a tour of the University of Ithaca (based on Ithaca College) to some prospective students. The students seem very uninterested until Barry starts telling the story of Josh Parker (Breckin Meyer) and Tiffany Henderson (Rachel Blanchard) who were long time friends and high school sweethearts. They both had to face a long distance relationship when Josh enrolls at the University of Ithaca and Tiffany enrolls at the University of Austin (based on the University of Texas). They made a promise to be true to each other and call each other every day. At first they keep their word, but then when Tiffany abruptly "goes silent" and doesn't call Josh or answer any of his calls, Josh begins worrying that Tiffany is seeing another guy, especially after Tiffany's defiantly-surly roommate tactlessly suggests that Tiffany probably isn't calling Josh back because she may be "otherwise occupied", and then curtly berates Josh for calling so often, causing his agonized mind to fear that the explanation for Tiffany’s silence is purposely being withheld from him.

Josh's suitemate E.L. (Seann William Scott) thinks Josh is crazy for keeping a long-distance relationship with Tiffany and tries to encourage him to go to his party where Beth Wagner (Amy Smart), an Ithaca student who has a crush on Josh, will be. Josh goes to the party where girls are auctioned off to potential mates. Beth urges Josh to outbid Jacob, a devious young teacher's assistant who has an unhealthy obsession with Beth. E.L., who was in charge of the auction, allows Josh to win Beth for the night and they manage to have sex in Josh's bed and videotape it.

The next morning Josh's roommates are surprised to see Josh all upbeat and he tells them about his experience with Beth and wants to show them the videotape. Upon starting to play it, however, Josh is shocked to discover that it's a different videotape --- a caring love-message he had made for Tiffany the day before --- and thus Josh realizes that his roommate, Rubin, accidentally sent the "steamy" tape to Tiffany instead of the one he made for her the previous day. This horrifies Josh, especially when Tiffany subsequently leaves a sorrowful and penitent voicemail for him, explaining that the reason she wasn't calling him was that her grandfather had died unexpectedly.

In order to intercept the tape, Josh, E.L. and Rubin agree to take a road trip to Austin, Texas. They beg their nerdy floormate Kyle to go with them because he's the only one with a roadworthy car.

While on the road, they find what they think is a shortcut near Bedford, PA, but they run into a collapsed bridge. Despite Kyle's objections, E.L. decides to jump the car over the bridge. They make it across but the wheels fall off and shortly after getting out of the car, it explodes, destroying all their belongings. After staying at a nearby hotel, E.L. manages to trick the clerk at the Blind School into thinking their bus has a flat tire, only to end up stealing the bus. Back in upstate New York, Kyle's strict parents find out their credit card was maxed out, Kyle's car was destroyed and he is missing from school.

At Ithaca College, Beth asks Barry (the present-day tour guide who is recounting the story to Ithaca's prospective students) where Josh went. Beth is upset when Barry tells her that Josh went to see his girlfriend (Josh had previously told her that they'd broken up because at the time he hadn't heard yet that Tiffany's grandfather had died, and so he'd still assumed that Tiffany had abandoned him for another guy). Barry also says that Josh went to Austin, Massachusetts, and Beth corrects him by saying Boston, Massachusetts, Beth is left believing that Josh went to Boston. She takes a bus there to inform Tiffany about Josh's infidelity, but having never met Tiffany or even knowing what she looks like, Beth mistakenly approaches a Boston University student who also happens to be named Tiffany Henderson, and sadly informs the student that her boyfriend was cheating on her, only to later be embarrassed when she discovers that the enraged girl is the wrong Tiffany.

Josh tries to call his professor to ask if he can get an extension on his midterm. He needs to get a B-plus on the midterm in order to pass the class, but Jacob, who answers the professor's phone, slyly impersonates the professor's voice and thus tricks Josh --- promising to allow the extension but then not telling the professor --- because he wants Josh to fail and be expelled from the college so that Jacob can hopefully have Beth for himself. Beth returns to Ithaca to confront Barry about his stupidity and while doing so, hears about Jacob's scheme.

The next night, the boys find a fraternity at the University of Tennessee, Xi Chi, where Rubin claims he knows the secret handshake. However, it is really an all African-American fraternity. They play a practical joke on Kyle, claiming that he hid a KKK mask in his suitcase, which causes him to pass out. He later wakes up, gets drunk on wine and becomes the life of the party. Later that night, he chats with, and manages to lose his virginity to, a kindly heavyset black girl named Rhonda (Mia Amber Davis). Kyle is very excited about this; he even says out loud he had sex when the boys try to donate sperm the next day.

Shortly after entering the state of Texas, they stop at Barry's grandparents' house. Rubin manages to get high with Barry's grandfather as well as getting their dog high when the canine inhales the pot joints' second-hand smoke.

The boys finally arrive in Austin the next day and they are greeted by a rude office clerk who won't let them get Tiffany's mail. This leads to a brawl between him and the boys. Kyle's parents show up, very angry at what happened, but when they "start in on him", the normally insecure Kyle actually manages to stand up for himself for the first time, indignantly stating that these guys are his friends and that the car and credit card were stolen. Tiffany enters the room in this moment, and Josh takes her to her dorm room, taking the tape he stole with him, where they finally come to realize this long-distance relationship isn't the best thing for them. As they speak, Beth calls, warning Josh about Jacob's lie. While calmly waiting for Josh to finish his phone conversation, Tiffany takes Josh's tape, which he left on top of her bed, out of its mailer for the first time and begins to play it. Still on the phone with Beth, Josh at first doesn't notice, but then he suddenly recognizes the beginning of his movie with Beth as it appears on Tiffany's TV. This first part is merely an innocuous image of Josh standing fully clothed and speaking about what qualities he desires in a good woman; Josh remembers, though, that the erotic scenes begin just a few seconds into the tape. But as Josh frantically rushes across the room to stop the VCR, the picture abruptly changes to an image of Barry, and Josh realizes that the tape has been re-recorded, and that Barry had unwittingly taped over the sex portion with Beth by mooning the camera and acting like an idiot. Josh's frantic dash to Austin to keep Tiffany from receiving the tape hadn't been necessary after all, since the sex portion of the tape had already been erased. Tiffany (still unaware of the tape's original content) and Josh then amicably break off their romance merely because the long-distance relationship isn't working out for either of them, but they remain best friends.

Two days later, the boys return to Ithaca where Josh thinks he's 57 minutes late for his midterm. However, Beth has anonymously called in a bomb threat to delay the exam because she doesn't want Josh to fail. Josh scores a B-plus on his test, he and Beth start dating, Jacob became the leader of a cult, in which he tried to convince everyone to commit mass suicide with him, but after he dies everyone else changed their minds. E.L. starts dating a student from medical school, Rubin becomes High Times' man of the year for creating a potent but undetectable new cannabis plant, and Kyle (now happily dating Rhonda) reconciles with his father. Barry, back in the present day where he is giving his tour of the college, says that he hopes all of this will encourage the students in the tour group to attend the University of Ithaca.