Running Against Time (1990) (TV)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Bruce Seth Green

Writers (WGA):

Stanley Shapiro (book)
Stanley Shapiro (teleplay) ...

Release Date:

21 November 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

History professor David Rhodes never has got over the death of his older brother, 1966 in Vietnam. When...

Plot Keywords:

Vietnam | Older Brother | President | Kennedy | Einstein

Cast

Robert Hays	...	David Rhodes
Catherine Hicks	...	Laura Whittaker
Sam Wanamaker	...	Hendryk Koopman, Ph.D.
Wayne Tippit	...	FBI Agent Landry
James DiStefano	...	Lee Harvey Oswald
Tracy Fraim
Juanita Jennings
Mark Phelan
Paul Scherrer	...	Chris Rhodes
Brian Smiar	...	President Lyndon B. Johnson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Julie Ariola	...	Mrs. Rhodes
Gerald Berns	...	Old Christopher
Thomas Robert Burke	...	Cop #2
Tim De Zarn	...	Aide (as Tim de Zarn)
Nike Doukas	...	Student #2
Duncan Gamble	...	Mr. Rhodes
Richard Gilbert-Hill	...	Police Spokesperson
Dean Hill	...	Captain Will Fritz
Darlene Kardon	...	Head Nurse
Albert Manquero	...	Young Husband
Russ Marin	...	Doctor w / Chris
J. Lamont Pope	...	Student #1
Rusty Schwimmer	...	Sales Rep
Damion Stevens	...	Young David
Pepper Sweeney	...	Student #3
Warren Sweeney	...	Dr. Wilkins
Milt Tarver	...	FBI Agent Clemens
Ron Troncatty	...	Depository Employee
Andrew Walker	...	Cop #1
Michael Whaley	...	Security Guard

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Finland:K-8 | Germany:12 | USA:PG | UK:U

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Coastline Partners

Trivia:

Catherine Hicks also traveled in time in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).

Good time travel flick

***** SPOILER ALERT ******* This made for TV movie, while modestly produced, was well executed. Robert Hays suffers over the death of his brother in Viet Nam. He meets up with Sam Wanamaker, the inventor of a time machine. (I guess you have to suspend your disbelief over time travel, but then again over a professor in the basement of a university science building concocting a working time machine.) Hays goes back to 1963 to stop Lee Harvey Oswald from assassinating JFK. I suppose this is based on the Oliver Stone premise that Kennedy would not have escalated the war in Viet Nam. A very debatable point. It is a good dramatic point;however, just as good the one used in the Time Tunnel Titanic episode. If only a few things had changed to prevent each tragedy. Gene Roddenberry had unsuccessfully tried to advance such an idea for the Star Trek movie series. He envisioned the Enterprise going back to 1963 as well. After several unsuccessful trips back to 1963, Hayes finds that history unfolded correctly in the first place. Except he managed to change just enough to save his brother's life.