Quicksilver

Name: Quicksilver
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: February 14, 1986
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 43
Cast: Andrew Smith, Charles McCaughan, David Harris, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jami Gertz

1986

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: February 14, 1986 | PG

Starring: Andrew Smith, Charles McCaughan, David Harris, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jami Gertz, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Louie Anderson, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos

Summary: Jack (Kevin Bacon) was doing great trading shares until he wasn't. He gets a job on a bike at Quicksilver speed delivery. There he befriends Hector and the cute Terri. Jack gets an enemy in the criminal Gypsy.

Director: Thomas Michael Donnelly

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: PG

Runtime: 105 min

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Joe Brow

Despite its flaws, Quicksilver coasts by entertainingly, with some ingenious twists on the standard car chase, and even creates a new dance variation. [14 Feb 1986, p.25]

Michael Wilmington

The movie is like the bikers; it's best and freest when it's just racing ahead. Whenever it stops, you ask too many questions. Read full review

Gene Siskel

They might make a nice couple in a movie about them. But Quicksilver, a product of the music video influence, has been edited at such a rapid pace that there`s more time given over to bicycle racing and car chases than to love. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The story is so interesting, and Bacon and the other actors are so capable, that if this movie had been two hours out of their lives, I would have found it compelling. What we get, though, is 35 minutes of their lives and a lot of recycled visual cliches. Read full review

Paul Attanasio

According to the press kit, "Producer Daniel Melnick's personal stamp on films has always been to avoid the obvious, the cliche'." Uh, Dan . . . you lost your stamp. Read full review

Orlando Aloma

All its freewheeling makes for a really "moving" movie, one in which the big chase scene involves, predictably, a car and a bike. But there's not much else to it. [21 Feb 1986, p.6]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

QUICKSILVER isn't a movie. It's actually a series of rock videos occasionally interrupted by a slight dalliance with story progression. The premise is wholly fabricated, the style is pure MTV, and the characters are all pressed from Hollywood cliche cutters. Read full review

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