Timothy Hutton, Kim Cattrall, Robert Urich. An off duty fire fighter leaving a bar runs into a building and saves people. He gets hurt but because he had alcohol in his system, insurance won’t pay and it’s because of NY policies (bear in mind this movie was from 1985). His younger brother decides to bring the issue to the attention of the populace… Siskel and Ebert positively hated this movie, which means that it’s actually good.
Fun Movie Friday–Turk 182
5 responses to “Fun Movie Friday–Turk 182”
-
Man, I remember that movie. I worked at the theaters back in the day when that came out. I have the movie poster for it too.
I liked the movie and it had a young Timothy Hutton in it. Zimmerman Flew, Tyler Knew…LikeLike
-
I had a friend nick-named Turk, he was a tagger in NYC.
He loved this movie.
His tag wasn’t far off the one in the movie. His was first.LikeLike
-
Patrick–Loved the movie!
Veeshir–I guess the movie was ‘inspired’ by a tagger named Taki 183. It’s cool that you knew the guy!
LikeLike
-
This movie was all over WGN and WTBS as a staple in their movie libraries back when I was in my late teens and well into my 20’s, it seems like. I was always seeing it rebroadcast, usually in a weekend afternoon. I thought it was a pretty decent movie, since I was an anti-authority type even then, and loved seeing him keep embarrassing asshole politicians. The part where he reprograms the scoreboard at the ballpark was one of my favorites, being something of a hardware hacker myself at the time.
Pretty good cast, as well. Robert Urich was cool (liked him in Spenser: For Hire, and from the earlier SWAT series) and Robert Culp was ok too, even if he played an jerk in this one. Lots of other old school character actors in it as well. Not very realistic, but that’s Hollywood for you. At least it was an enjoyable watch, without forced diversity in the cast, and obnoxious in-your-face wokeness just for the purpose of agitating those watching.
Oh, and Siskel and Ebert were sanctimonious prigs, what’d they know anyway?
LikeLike
-
BRD–I think we were watching the same channels. Agree on all points, except I wasn’t a hardware hacker. 😉 And yes they were… The movies I liked were the ones they panned the most.
LikeLike
Midwest Chick's Place 
Leave a Reply to Patrick O’Neal Cancel reply