The Time Shifters (TV 1999)

A reporter, learning of time travelers visiting 20th century disasters, tries to change the history they know by averting upcoming disasters.

Director:

Mario Azzopardi

Writers:

Kurt Inderbitzin, Gay Walch

Stars:

Casper Van Dien, Catherine Bell, Theresa Saldana

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Casper Van Dien	...	Tom Merrick
Catherine Bell	...	Elizabeth Wintern
Theresa Saldana	...	Cortez
Peter Outerbridge	...	Felder
Julian Richings	...	Murray Trevor, Time-Traveling Tourist
Lawrence Dane	...	FBI Agent Baker
Catherine Oxenberg	...	Thrill Seekers Spokesperson (as Catherine Van Dien)
Mimi Kuzyk	...	Eleanor Grayson
James Allodi	...	FBI Agent Stanton
Deborah Odell	...	Jen
Martin Sheen	...	Grifasi
Matthew Bennett	...	Captain Tyler
Marc Donato	...	Kevin
Stephen Bogaert	...	Steve
Sumela Kay	...	Girl on Plane

Storyline

A Strange passenger from the future seems to be witnessing all the great disasters of the century. Two reporters are trying to track this man down to see where he will show up next. The movie also works on the problem of the two reporters that want to prevent the next disaster from happening. Should they change the future when they know another disaster is going to strike?

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Plot Keywords:

disaster | reporter | bomb | pilot | titanic | 

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Taglines:

If you could change the past would you?

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Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for violence and peril

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 October 1999 (USA)

Also Known As:

Thrill Seekers

Filming Locations:

Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Abandon Pictures, Avenue Pictures Productions, Carlton America

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Copps Coliseum is a real hockey stadium, but although depicted as being in an unspecified U.S. city, it's actually in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The city skyline seen in front of the stadium fire at one point is that of Toronto.

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Goofs

A train car rolling sideways along four tracks plows easily through the three sets of columns between them. As these are sturdy supports for the roof, they should resist the car with much greater force, tearing it apart. And if so many of them did get destroyed, the tunnel should collapse. (Reused goof from Money Train.)

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Connections

References Larry King Live (1985)

User Reviews

This B-Movie is a little gem

Sometimes, you will find a little gem between all the cheap and poor B-movies that was aired all night on TV. "Thrill Seekers" is really one of this seldom gems and shows clearly, that you don't need a few 100-million dollars to made a good movie. The story makes it! And the story of the tourists from the future that traveling along the time-line to visit disasters of the past, is a very good plot. Our hero (living in our time) examines some old photos of disasters and make a very strange discovery... I will do not spoil the movie for you, but the many surprises and a lot of good twists (especially the last, and i mean the really very last :-) make it better than a lot of big Hollywood films that only works with massive action and CG-effects to cover a weak plot. Yes, you will probably find some logical errors in the film, but if you make a movie about time-travels, you can't avoid it, because nobody knows, what is really a logical error when time-travel warp the logic, or that, what we called logic, itself. So, what is going on when you go back in time and change the past... will you change the future, or some alternate futures in a multilevel universe? Who knows! And perhaps some visitors of the future are already among us... maybe it's a good idea to examine the photos of yesterdays disasters again and more exactly... I give it a 7 of 10. It is really worth to see it!