Timerider

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As time-travel adventures go, this 1983 outing is an enjoyable one: a loosey-goosey shaggy-dog story about an '80s kind of guy who gets tossed back to the '70s--the 1870s, that is. Fred Ward plays the hero, a motocross racer who, along with his motorcycle, accidentally rides into the middle of a science experiment and is transported to the Old West. There, he runs into a cast of bad guys that includes some of the best character actors of the period: L.Q. Jones, Tracey Walter, Richard Masur, Ed Lauter, and Peter Coyote. It's your classic fish-out-of-water setup, with Ward as the slightly dippy wise guy who startles the heck out of the cowboys and pioneers of the period with his motorized bike, until he runs out of gas. The movie runs out of fuel as well, but it's an enjoyable ride while it lasts. Notable for its coproducer and cowriter: Michael Nesmith, formerly of the Monkees. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews:

TimeRider.......2006-03-10

I loved this movie from its original release and have looked for it for years. Kicked myself for not buying it from the old VHS video store that had it!!! Does the DVD edit out the scene and storyline of the cowpoke(famous character actor - what is his name?) getting his nose bit off?? If they deleted the copter scene I am amazed they didn't cut this too!!! I want to buy the DVD but what is the point if it is missing crucial stuff!!! Pam

You got it, dude........2005-10-12

Alan Satterfield writes, "it always made me think that maybe he had slept with his grandmother...."

Yup, that's the point. You will also note that his last name is Swann, and hers is Cygne (French for Swan). And he tells her that he's from Los Angeles, and later notes that his Grandmother came to Los Angeles looking for her lover.

Fun film. Totally ruined by the changed ending. Buy the VHS version instead (although some of these have the bad ending as well.)

Grandmother ?.......2005-10-02

Does anyone remember that he was wearing a necklace that his grandmother had given him & that woman he slept with took it from him just before he leaped back to the present from the past ? it always made me think that maybe he had slept with his grandmother....anybody else.... by the way i loved this film & was delited that it came back.... the helecopter scene was a Killer ~! Alan~! P.S. I often wonder if Niclas Cage & Smalls ( The Wart Hog From Hell) as holly Hunter called him in Raising Arizona ...were indeed Brothers...they were both adopted were they not & indeed both had Road Runner Tatoos ...as he was about to blow up he pulled down on the front of Small's shirt & seen the Tatoo..was his look of shock & horror only for the pulled pin or also the Tatoo.... any way!!!

Good not great.......2005-08-28

I first saw this movie when I was in 8 th grade and loved it. Now that I have seen it 21 years later it doesn't quite hold up, but is still entertaining. Some of the lingo Fred Ward uses is down right cheesey, but that is the 80's. The movies is shorter than I remember it too. It was worth the $10

QUESTIONING THE COMMENTARY.......2005-04-07

Did this film merit one? Not really! Jaws got no audio commentary. Why should this flick? Few saw Timerider (at least in the USA) in it's theatrical release. Perhaps it became a hit on cable in late 1983. The dialogue is often silly ("She don't shoot no Dorset! Nobody shoots no dorset") but at least there are no bleeding heart characters in the film and it's mostly a lot of fun.

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