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Directed by prolific stuntman and filmmaker Hal Needham (Smokey and the Bandit) and featuring stunning photography by Richard Leiterman (Stephen King's It ), this fun, fast paced, and inspiration for many future pro BMX superstars makes its belated Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD debut from Vinegar Syndrome, in a brand new, breathtaking 4K restoration from its original 35mm camera negative.

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To make matters even more complicated, Cru soon learns that the race is scheduled the same day he's supposed to take the SATs and finds himself with a choice between his future in college and a race where all odds are stacked against him.Īmong the most beloved films to emerge from the mid 80s BMX bike craze, RAD has developed an ever-growing cult audience, and stars Bill Allen (Born on the 4th of July), Lori Loughlin (TV’s Full House), two time Academy Award nominee Talia Shire (Rocky, The Godfather), Golden Globe nominee Jack Weston (Dirty Dancing), real life Olympic champion Bart Connor and more. But unknown to Cru, Duke has concocted the race as a publicity stunt to promote his own top rider, Bart Taylor, and begins to do everything in his power to prevent Cru from being able to enter into the competition. Rad Movies123: A BMX racer, who lives in a small town with his mother and sister, is faced with a tough decision, qualify for Helltrack or take his SATs in order to attend college. When Duke Best, owner of Mongoose Bicycles, decides to hold a competition at a nearly impossible-to-complete BMX racing course named Hell Track, Cru decides that it's his destiny to compete in the race, which offers a winning cash prize of $100,000. and based on the iconic original poster artwork) is strictly limited and is only available here at ! We will not be repressing this release in any format once it sells out.Ĭru Jones is the fastest and most talented BMX rider in his small logging town. This special limited edition 3D Lenticular ( front) and Holographic ( back) slipcover (designed by Earl Kessler Jr.

With Bill Allen, Lori Loughlin, Talia Shire, Jack Weston, Ray Walston.A pop culture and cult film staple for nearly 35 years, we’re overjoyed to bring Hal Needham’s RAD to 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray for the first time, in a fully loaded and strictly limited edition. ‘RAD’Ī TriStar release of a Taliafilm II/Robert L.

In movies like this, action is often enough-but here, it’s just not radical. They sound like a rejected ad campaign for Old Milwaukee. It also would have been better without all those songs about catching the thunder and grabbing the lightning and going for the glory. It lives on its action and dies on its gab. “Rad” isn’t coy and elephantine, such as “Stoker Ace” or “Cannonball Run,” but it isn’t trim and slick and irreverent like “Smokey and the Bandit” either. (You’d think something would eventually dawn on a director, whose scripts consistently play better when the actors mess them up than when they get the lines right.)

Recently, in outtakes run under the closing credits of Needham’s Burt Reynolds pictures, the bloopers have been funnier than anything in the films. Only a few of his actors (like Weston or Ray Walston here) can bring it off without looking foolish.

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His comedy style has gotten afflicted with leaden whimsy and a critical case of the macho cutes, and his ideas about timing and delivery seem to come from celebrity roasts, ‘60s Disney features, Lite Beer commercials, “Monday Night Football” and TV talk-show banter. Predictability and silly scripting don’t always have to be vices-though they’re definitely vices in “Rad”: minor, disagreeable ones.Įver since “Smokey and the Bandit II,” Needham has been having trouble whenever his characters hop off their bikes or out of their cars and try to say something. When Jack Weston shows up as Helltrack’s perfidious sponsor-snorting up a virtual squall of villainy-you can guess every devious scheme he and his minion will try to pull. You know who’s going to win the race, and you know what romance is going to strike up. The movie is as predictable as a TV wrestling match-which isn’t necessarily bad. He seems to have fun staging the BMX races-which take place on a twisty, trap-laden small-town obstacle course called Helltrack, and supposedly pit the country’s top BMX specialists against one another (along with one determined home owner). Director Hal Needham is always good with cars, and it stands to reason he’d be good with bikes, too. As long as it sticks to the bikes-odd little models that have a low center of gravity, wobble as they ride and can seemingly hop over any obstacle and land in perfect balance-it’s pretty entertaining. The whole thing reminds you more of an overanxious teacher or coach, taking a few slang words and repeating them endlessly in a doomed attempt to “relate.” But that doesn’t mean it’s a radical movie. You seem to be hearing them every minute or so. Probably no movie in recent memory uses the words radical and dude as much as “Rad” (citywide).