Speed Zone
Speed Zone was released in 1989 and was directed by Jim Drake. The film grossed $1,475,494 nationally in it’s opening weekend. Starring John Candy (Charlie Cronan), Donna Dixon (Tiffany), Matt Frewer (Alec Sterwart), Tim Matheson (Jack O’Neil) and Joe Flaherty (Vic DeRubis). The story begins with an group of greedy people are forced to participate in the illegal cross-country car race, the Cannonball Run. From Washington D.C. to Santa Monica, they race in order to claim a cash-prize money for the winner and runner ups. Oafish Charlie is forced to drive a BMW with bubble-brained starlet Tiffany. Heather and Jack are two TV reporters covering the action in their Ford Van and even partake in the race themselves. Nelson and Randolph Van Sloan are two wealthy and spoiled brothers driving a Bentley Corniche convertible and resort to dirty tricks to get ahead. Hounding the Cannonballers all along the way is the manic and corrupt police chief Spiro T. Edsel and his dim-witted aide, Whitman, hoping to stop the race and end the nuance the drivers cause by any means necessary.
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