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Catch Me If You Can (1989)
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Stephen Sommers (writer)
Release Date:
14 October 1989 (USA)
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A Rebel. A Legend. A Romance. The Ultimate Race! more
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A hotshot, teenage car racer persuades the class president of a small Minnesota high school to gamble on illegal car races to raise money for their school facing closure. full summary | add synopsis
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High School
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Loan Shark
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Organized Crime
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Railway
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Drag Racer, High School, and the Gambing Syndicate
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Matt Lattanzi | ... | Dylan Malone |
| Loryn Locklin | ... | Melissa Hanson |
 | Grant Heslov | ... | Nevil |
| Billy Morrissette | ... | Monkey |
 | Geoffrey Lewis | ... | Mr. Johnson |
 | M. Emmet Walsh | ... | Johnny Phatmun |
| Dan Bell | ... | Manney |
| Jefferson Slinkard | ... | Dirk |
| Kevin Dewey | ... | Quarterback |
| Chad Bell | ... | Stoner |
| Tara Trooien | ... | Debutante |
| Rhonda L. Rubertus | ... | Cheerleader |
| Robert Kempe | ... | Band Kid |
| Kathryn Lamb | ... | Drama Kid |
 | Peter Breitmayer | ... | Stackowski |
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106 min
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Revealing mistakes: When pulling the '57 Chevy out of the trailer it is red with the insert on the rear painted white. In the car wash when the guy is using a rag on the side its easy to see that the insert is now the aluminum used on the Bel-air.
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Hard Headed Woman
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Unlike Fresh (1994), where a young, 12 year old African American male pushes drugs in the Brooklyn community, this film has another reference to the innovator, a typology coined by sociologist Robert Merton, where an individual would like to have a share of culturally defined goals, but reject the legitimate means to achieve success. In this film, the local high school is on the verge of being closed, and the student council president (Loryn Locklin) and the principal (Geoffrey Lewis) must come up with $200,000 to save the school from its demise. When Matt Lattanzi steps in, this is where the plot twist occurs.
The Malone character engages in illegitimate sub rosa activity, by illegal street racing for money, and when all legitimate efforts fail during the fundraiser, the last resort is illegal street racing, when $3000 of the fundrainser money is betted on a street race. Unknowingly to the high school students, they are dealing with the gambling syndicate, and the loan sharks that run the illegal street racing. Lots of classic cars in this film, which includes a 1968 Chevelle and a 1957 Chevrolet, and watch for the ultimate plot twist where the principal used to be a legendary drag racer! Why does he hide his car on the schoolgrounds? Because his home used to be located there.