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Quicksilver (1986) 5.3
Jack Casey ('Kevin Bacon' )used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed ... See full summary » Director:Thomas Michael DonnellyWriter:Thomas Michael Donnelly |
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Cast
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Jack Casey
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Terri
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Hector Rodriguez
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Gypsy
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Gabe Kaplan
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Gerald S. O'Loughlin | ... |
Mr. Casey
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Voodoo
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Tiny
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Charles McCaughan | ... |
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Whitney Kershaw | ... |
Rand
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Joshua Shelley | ... |
Shorty
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Mrs. Casey
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Nelson Vails | ... |
Messenger in Maroon Beret
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Lou Dinos | ... |
Cha Cha
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Jack Casey ('Kevin Bacon' )used to be a hot-shot stock market whiz kid. After a disastrous professional decision, his life in the fast lane is over. He loses his nerve and joins a speed delivery firm which relies on bicycles to avoid traffic jams of San Francisco, is attracted to a fellow bicycler, Terri, and befriends Hector, a budding entrepreneur. Can Jack regain his nerve and his self-respect, and rebuild his life on a more sound basis? Written by Reid Gagle
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bicycle | stock speculators | latino | bicycle acrobat | financial disaster |Taglines:
Speeding towards the final -- and deadly -- showdown... See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
14 February 1986 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
O Prazer de Ganhar See more »Box Office
Gross:
$7,634,909 (USA)Company Credits
Production Co:
Columbia Pictures Corporation, Delphi V Productions, IndieProd Company Productions See more »
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Performed by Roy Milton
Written by Roy Milton & Dottsie Williams
Courtesy of Dootone Records (1955)
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Although a variety of bicycles are used in the movie, 1984-85 Raleigh USA road bikes are used throughout by notable players in the movie. See more »Goofs
When Jack starts chasing Gypsy's car after he sees him in the city, he is wearing a thin grey top and a black waistcoat. However, at the point he loses the car at the lights the camera cuts to him wearing a grey knitted sweater and no grey top. In the very next scene he is back wearing the grey top and waistcoat. See more »Soundtracks
"You Got Me Reelin' and Rockin'"Performed by Roy Milton
Written by Roy Milton & Dottsie Williams
Courtesy of Dootone Records (1955)
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The "Premium Rush" of the 1980's is a source of good entertainment, raises some relevant questions, but it never achieves the magnitude of being too memorable or spectacularly interesting as the 2012 movie was. "Quicksilver" aims at many different directions - social drama, romantic story and some thrills in between - but it isn't fulfilling in any of those, just halfway there while "Premium Rush" which could also be all of those (and incredibly more relevant after 2008's economical crisis), deliver in all those aspects but no, instead is a helluva of entertainment flick which is so much fun to see and tolerate rather than the depressive overtones carried by the picture made during the Reaganomics.
In it, Kevin Bacon plays a successful trader who after losing everything on a bad business (never quite explained what really happened) joins a team of bike messengers, gladly working with them, gaining very little but finding true joy. It all happens in a finger snapping, just like that. The problem comes when he testifies one of his colleagues (Laurence Fishburne) being murdered by a drug dealer who uses their services as messenger to transport merchandising. And wouldn't be a successful 80's movie without a little romance between co-workers Bacon and Jami Gertz, and the main character's chance of redemption and rise back from where he started.
The bike scenes offer a great deal of excitement (specially the race between Fishburne and Bacon), cool to watch, there's good comic relief with Paul Rodriguez character but most of the dramatic subplots are annoying and should be reduced if not cut from the film at all costs; if focused only on the thriller it might be better but the villain is quite obnoxious, not because of the character is more because of a bad performance from the actor. The driven force of "Quicksilver" - and I don't know if this was intentional or not - is that is practically showing how people can be creative in troubled times, finding useful solutions for their problems. Such clichéd positivism was quite alright, if only they didn't took a lot of time after a slow and very depressive beginning that is more inclined to make you turn off the movie than to watch it.
Enjoyable for the majority of moments and because of the soundtrack - specially the Peter Frampton theme played at the opening scene. 7/10