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Director:
Bruce Morrison
Writers:
Henry Fownes (writer)
Joseph Garofalo (story)
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Release Date:
23 June 1986 (Hungary) more
Genre:
Action | Drama more
Tagline:
With A Deadly Experiment Out of Control, He is Their Only Hope more
Plot:
With the accidental discovery of a lethal bio-agent at her research facility, Dr. Christine Ruben decides... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
It's All In The Chase more (6 total)

Cast

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Cliff Robertson ... Judd Pierson

Leif Garrett ... Casey Lee
Lisa Harrow ... Dr. Christine Ruben

Shane Briant ... Paul Thoreau
Peter Rowell ... Mr. Carney
Peter Hayden ... Michael Connoly
Ian Mune ... Barry Gordon

Bruce Phillips ... Dr. Marshall
Fiona Samuel ... Casey's Girl (as Fiona Samuels)
Nathaniel Lees ... Squad Commander
Geoffrey Heath ... Customer
Igo Kantor ... CIA Man
Barry Dorking ... Storeman
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Michael Baxter-Lax ... The Hitman
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Runtime:
Brazil:91 min | USA:91 min
Country:
New Zealand | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Iceland:12 | Norway:15 | UK:15
Filming Locations:
Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful.
It's All In The Chase, 17 May 2007
3/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Shaker Run is strictly a film for those who like car chases with little plot to get in the way.

Cliff Robertson is down on his luck race driver and Leif Garrett is his mechanic stuck in New Zealand some 8000 miles from America. A deadly virus has been developed in a lab and Dr. Lisa Harrow doesn't trust her own government not to give it to the military. So what does she do? She contacts the American Central Intelligence Agency and of course they're real interested.

Lisa steals the virus and hires Robertson and Garrett to transport it to a designated hand off spot. Of course they have all of New Zealand law enforcement chasing them soon enough without at first Robertson and Garrett knowing why.

On the plus side there is both nice scenic photography of the New Zealand country side and of Auckland and Wellington. There are enough car chases and stunt driving to satisfy the most insatiable junkie for this stuff. Cliff Robertson and the rest of the cast basically walk through their parts, I'm sure Robertson did it for the money and for a nice trip to New Zealand.

I have to agree with another viewer, if you didn't see the police with New Zealand uniforms and didn't hear the Kiwi accents, you'd swear you were watching the American cops dealing with a fugitive with all that weaponry. Foreigners occasionally do more than chide Americans for their obsessive love of guns, yet these cops seem to find they come in handy if ineffective in dealing with a professional race car driver.

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