Zero to Sixty (1978)

User Rating:

4.4/10   

Director:

Don Weis

Writers:

Judith Bustany (story)
Darren McGavin (writer)

Release Date:

June 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Teenage Girl | Car Chase | Auto Repossession | Repossession | Female Nudity

Cast

Darren McGavin	...	Michael Nolan
Sylvia Miles	...	Flo Ames
Joan Collins	...	Gloria Martine
Denise Nickerson	...	'Larry' Wilde
Bill Hudson	...	Eddie
Brett Hudson	...	Harry
Mark Hudson	...	Sammy
Vito Scotti	...	Benny
Lorraine Gary	...	Billy-Jon
David Huddleston	...	Harold Finch
Monica Lewis	...	Aunt Clara
Gordon MacRae	...	Officer Joe
Dick Martin	...	Arthur Dunking
Lyle Waggoner	...	Gay Bar Bartender
Al Checco	...	The Cook

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | Finland:K-16 | UK:15 | USA:PG

Company:

First Artists

A Strange Ride

I just picked up this movie on the internet and after watching had mixed emotions. There really is NO plot line here. Darren McGavin has lost everything and seems like a wishy washy kind of turd in the punchbowl. Someone tries to Repo his ex-wife's car and that's how gets involved with the inept ring of repo guys, headed up by the tough as nails Sylvia Miles. McGavin's character Mike is teamed up with a 16 year old juvy who takes him in and falls in love with him. He doesn't feel the same(does the word statutory rape ring a bell???) but she wants to bang him anyway. Mike is too interested in banging some of the women who's cars are wanted by the bank and he ends up doing them too. There's not much to see in this film. Gratuitous car chases, goofy performances by the Hudson Brothers who were like the Three Stooges or trying to be like them, horrible fight scenes(though McGavin did know Karate but that wasn't evident here) and one bad love making scene with McGavin and Joan Collins(yes, Joan Collins). But it's fun to watch McGavin, he's a delight no matter what he does. Why did he do this schlock(filmed in Toronto I might add)? It was the pet project of his second wife, the late Kathie Browne. Oh, let me add 2 gratuitous scenes of McGavin's untanned butt. The highlight of the movie(at least to me).