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Freejack
A racer named Furlong (ha-ha) is yanked out of his car by reverse time-travellers an instant before his "fatal" crash, and is whisked to the year 2009, to undergo a mind-transplant with a recent decedent, temporarily on hold at the Spiritual Switchboard. But he escapes. There's a chase, then another chase (motorcycle crashing through plate-glass window, etc.), then another, then another, then another, in a trite futureworld of smoke and blue light. The story supposedly comes from a novel by Robert Sheckley, a bona fide member of SF's Golden Age, but not so as you'd notice. Mick Jagger, wearing a suit of creaking black leather and a pilot's helmet the size of a beach ball, returns to the dramatic arts after an absence of twenty years, in his continuing desperate quest to find new ways in middle age to make himself ridiculous. Emilio Estevez, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins; directed by Geoff Murphy. 1992.
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MPAA Rating: R