Running Against Time

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Running Against Time
Running Against Time Film Poster-VHS cover.jpg
VHS artwork
Directed byBruce Seth Green
Screenplay byStanley Shapiro (based on his book A Time To Remember) and Robert Glass
StarringRobert Hays
Catherine Hicks
Sam Wanamaker
Distributed byMCA Television Entertainment
USA Network
Coastline Partners
Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions
Release date
  • November 1990 (1990-11)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
This article is about the 1990 television movie adaptation. For the 1986 American source novel, see A Time To Remember (novel).

Running Against Time is a 1990 time travel television film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.[1][2]

Starring Robert Hays, Catherine Hicks, and Sam Wanamaker, it was directed by Bruce Seth Green and the last work written by Stanley Shapiro based on his 1986 novel A Time To Remember[3] (with Robert Glass as co-writer on the teleplay). Broadcast four months after Shapiro's death in Los Angeles, it was dedicated to his memory.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Plot[]

A college professor, who has never got over the death of his brother in Vietnam, hears rumours about a famous professor working on a time machine. He meets him and persuades the doctor to send him back in time in order to stop the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam war, but things don't go according to plan, and he ends up getting blamed for the killing until his girlfriend and the professor travel back to help him, which causes additional issues.[10][11]

Alternative VHS artwork

Cast[]

Reception[]

Ken Tucker, writing for Entertainment Weekly called the movie "simultaneously solemn and wacky" but "not without charm".[12] The LA Times compared it unfavourably to the Back to the Future movies.[13]

Years later, the similarities and differences would be discussed in regards to Stephen King's novel 11/22/63 and its TV adaptation, as very different approaches to the same idea.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV, and Videography, 1963-1992. Greenwood Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-313-28982-8.
  2. ^ Running Against Time (TV) (1990), retrieved 2021-01-29
  3. ^ "» Reviewed by Marv Lachman: STANLEY SHAPIRO – A Time to Remember". Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  4. ^ Ap (1990-07-24). "Stanley Shapiro, 65; 'Pillow Talk' Script Won Him an Oscar (Published 1990)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  5. ^ "Stanley Shapiro, 65; Producer, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter". Los Angeles Times. 1990-07-22. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
  6. ^ The Hollywood Reporter. Wilkerson Daily Corporation. 1990.
  7. ^ Marill, Alvin H. (2005). Movies Made for Television, 1964-2004: 1990-1999. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5174-0.
  8. ^ Moser, James D.; Stevens, Tracy; Publishing, Quigley; Pay, William; Thompson, Patricia (2004). Television & Video Almanac. Quigley Publishing Company.
  9. ^ Davies, Clive (2015-03-06). Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write About. SCB Distributors. ISBN 978-1-909394-06-3.
  10. ^ "Running against Time (1990)". BFI. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  11. ^ Green, Bruce Seth (1990-11-21), Running Against Time (Sci-Fi), Robert Hays, Catherine Hicks, Sam Wanamaker, Wayne Tippit, Coastline Partners, Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions, MCA Television Entertainment (MTE), retrieved 2021-01-25
  12. ^ "Running Against Time". EW.com. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  13. ^ "TV Review : 'Against Time' on USA". Los Angeles Times. 1990-11-21. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  14. ^ "11.22.63 Bonus Episode 3: A Time To Remember Running Against Time – 11.22.63". webcache.googleusercontent.com. Retrieved 2021-01-25.

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