Flashback (1990)
Genre: Comedy / Action
Duration: 108 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Franco Amurri
Stars: Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland and Carol Kane
IMDb score:
6,2 (6.019)
Releasedate: 2 February 1990
Flashback plot
"A '60s radical. An uptight fed. It's gonna be a real trip!"
Jack Buckner is a young, straightforward FBI agent. He is tasked with leading an ex-hippie named Huey Walker to a trial in Idaho for committing a crime 20 years ago. Along the way, the two obviously don't get along at all, and Huey manages to get Jack drunk and pretend to be a cop. This lands Jack in jail and Huey escapes. Once released, Jack does everything he can to find and arrest Huey. Along the way, however, they encounter another interesting part of Jack's past.
Actors and actresses
Huey Walker
John Buckner
Maggie
Stark
Sheriff Rand Hightower
Barry
Hal Cresciman
Sparkle
Phil Prager
Prison Guard
Reviews & comments
scorsese
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- 13232 messages
- 11124 votes
Nice film about an FBI agent who has to escort an old hippie so that he can stand trial. Not the most original action comedy, but entertaining overall. Many similarities with the better Midnight Run. Apart from the finale, the action is not much. Dennis Hopper and Kiefer Sutherland are nicely cast together.
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thunderball
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- 5900 messages
- 1420 votes
Recently purchased and viewed this on an R1 blu ray.
Actually average action comedy, were it not for the fact that the presence of Hopper gives the film a huge boost.
You could say that he can be seen in this in his two most iconic appearances. Of course, first of all as the hippie, as we know him from "Easy Rider", to transform halfway through the film into the Hopper, who we saw from the mid-1980s: the refreshed, well-groomed, neatly cut, in a neat suit (incl. tie) stabbed "new version" of Hopper.
As if the film - and Hopper himself - is playing with his own image and career. This gives the film enormous added value.
Contrast that with Sutherland, who plays a character who grew up in a hippie commune and rebelled against it, alienated himself from his hippie parents, and finally joined the FBI.
In the end, the two turn out to have more in common than they initially realized and wanted to admit:
Hopper's character becomes a successful writer-turned-businessman and Sutherland quits his job to tour the US on a newly purchased motorcycle.
There is a good chance that they will both eventually end up with the lady of the hippie commune, where character Hopper already intends to buy the land for her. And the circle is complete.
A big seven, or 3.5 stars.
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