Synopsis
Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes her for a ride in a souped-up race car owned by local racer Big Bubba Jones. Hoover's father Harry, who's also the local sheriff is furious at the situation and orders his bumbling deputies to go after him. With the Sheriff's office overflowing with concerned parents and citizens and his deputies failing to catch him. He enlists the help of Jones and fellow racers to capture him. It culminates in a thrilling car chase finale through the rural countryside.
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Cast
- Ron HowardHoover Niebold
- Christopher NorrisDarlene Kurtz
- Brad DavidBilly B. Westerby
- Kathy O'DareMiranda Smith
- Clint HowardGeorge Poole Jr.
- Peter IsacksenJunior Hale (as Pete Isacksen)
- Jessica PotterLallie Chandler
- Warren J. KemmerlingSheriff Harry Niebold (as Warren Kemmerling)
- Charles HowertonDep. Jay Beah
- Kedric WolfeDep. Brookside
Recommendations
- 70
IGN
It takes a little while to get going, but once it does, it never lets up, proving a cathartic anti-authority picture driven (both literally and figuratively) by Howard. - 67
Austin Chronicle
In a way, it's an archetypal car-chase flick, with next to no plot and a lot of cars flying through the air, engines roaring, tires roasting, sheetmetal bending. - 50
Time Out
Griffith's directorial debut - after 20 years of scripting for Corman - does deliver the expected race/chase/demolition derby mayhem, but every time the focus switches to Ron Howard's adolescent romantic worries, it stalls. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
An enjoyable but mindless hour and a half of car wrecks that span several states. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Though some of the chase sequences aren't bad, it's pretty silly. [27 Jun 2002, p.22]
