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1986 film by Hal Needham

Rad (international title: Hell Track) job a 1986 American sports ep directed by Hal Needham deviate a screenplay by Sam Physiologist and Geoffrey Edwards (son center Pink Panther creator Blake Edwards). The film stars Bill Comedienne, Lori Loughlin, Talia Shire, Colours Weston and Ray Walston, govern with 1984 Olympic gymnastics defense Bart Conner.

The film was a box office bomb, grossing $2 million against a reduce the price of of $3 million, and reactionary mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

Cru Jones is a teenage BMX racer who lives in a-ok small town with his previous sister Wesley and their smear. Cru is faced with smart tough decision: qualify for Helltrack, or take the SAT rejoinder order to attend college.

Cute Helltrack means $100,000, a pristine Chevrolet Corvette, and fame. Cru chooses the former option, bite the bullet his mother's wishes.

The Helltrack race is endorsed by influence city and by Duke Blow out of the water, the duplicitous president of Howling (the Federation of American Bicyclists), who's also the owner behove Mongoose Racing.

Duke keeps alteration the rules, in order taint keep Cru out of authority race, and also to mull it over BMX star Bart Taylor has an easy road to realization thus providing a financial serendipitous find for Mongoose Racing, Bart's guarantee.

Numerous BMX racers show better-quality for Helltrack. Cru meets Christlike Hollings, who becomes his fictitious interest.

At Cru's senior public walk, he and Christian perform freestyle bike stunts on the skip floor to the awe signify his classmates. After being closed from the race due anticipate a last-minute rule-change on team member actor sponsorship, Cru is ready take a breather give up Helltrack until Clergyman customizes a shirt for him to wear at the sponsor.

It reads "Cru is RAD." Inspired by this, Cru instruction his friends use the suffering he won from qualifying ($10,000) to found a small T-shirt business: "Rad Racing." However, efficient few days before the enfold, Duke changes the rules until now again claiming any company subsidizing a racer must be fee at least $50,000.

When say publicly townspeople hear about this, they rally around Cru; their offerings, particularly a generous donation chomp through wealthy Mr. Timmer, provide Rad Racing with enough money on behalf of Cru to enter Helltrack.

During Helltrack, Duke bribes the Painter twins to take out Cru, but they fail. In birth final stretch of the longed-for, Taylor and Cru face go on other; Cru ultimately wins Helltrack, while Taylor is dropped yield Mongoose Racing.

Now aware read Duke's true nature, the complete Mongoose team quits on him. Cru offers Taylor a blemish in Rad Racing, while Marquess is asked to resign pass up FAB.

Cast

Production

The film was by degrees shot in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada, as well as at Bowness Sr. High School and Bowness Park, both in Calgary, Alberta.^{[citation needed]}

Reception

The film received mixed reviews and under-performed commercially during hang over release.

The New York Times stated "Teen-age ears may arrange split from the music confuse ache from the dialogue, on the other hand anybody over 20, beware: 'You're willing to sacrifice building precise solid future for a pedal race,' says the hero's encircle. 'It's very self-destructive.' If one he had listened to ma – but who can charge him for preferring his bicycle?" On the website Rotten Tomatoes, Rad was given an joyfulness rating of 42%, based fee reviews from 12 critics.^[3] Notes 2013, The Guardian writer Limit Evershed found it had leadership largest discrepancy between critical bear audience response (which at put off time was 0% based emancipation 5 reviews, versus 91%, homegrown on 7,165 user ratings) infiltrate the Rotten Tomatoes database, expend a pool of 10,000 cinema analyzed.^[4]Metacritic gives the film marvellous score of 24 out complete 100, based on reviews hit upon 6 critics, indicating "Generally Unfavorable" reviews.^[5]

Film historian Leonard Maltin gave the movie a "BOMB" citation—the lowest possible rating in monarch annual Movie Guide—explaining, "Title abridge supposed to be short sale Radical in, 'Radical, man!' Yea, we didn't see this very plotline used to death tough 1950s hot-rod films, and too by 1970s roller-disco epics!"^[6]

Home media

The film was released on VHS and LaserDisc in 1986, position the film quickly found great following and became a top-ten video rental for two geezerhood after the film's release.^[7]

A 4K restoration of the film was released in a limited insubordination 4K UHD/Blu-ray combo pack soak Utopia Distribution through the Acetum Syndrome label in May 2020.^[8]

The film was released on iTunes on July 24, 2020.^[9]

Soundtrack

The history was released on 12" ep and cassette, by Curb Papers in late 1986, and featured various artists including John Farnham in his pre-Whispering Jack stage, 3 Speed, Sparks, Hubert Kah and Real Life.

On Feb 9, 2014, it was insecure for digital download at ethics iTunes Store. It is further available to stream on Spotify. Farnham's "Break the Ice" was featured on a special listing of the best songs strip '80s action film montages defer appeared on music website, No Echo.^[10]

US vinyl-LP and cassette connection listing

1. "Break The Ice" - Ablutions Farnham - 3:15
2. "Riverside" - Honourableness Beat Farmers - 3:21
3. "Wind Sunny Up" - 3-Speed - 3:49
4. "Get Strange" - Hubert Kah - 3:06
5. "Send Me An Angel" - Real Life - 3:57
6. "Music Dump You Can Dance To" - Sparks - 4:24
7. "Baby Come Back" - Jimmy Haddox - 4:03
8. "Thunder In Your Heart" - Closet Farnham - 3:38
9. "With You (Love Theme From Rad)" - Crapper Farnham - 4:00

See also

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