Cedric Smith, Claudia Jennings, David Graham

An early departure from director David Cronenberg's canon of visceral horror, 1979's Fast Company profiles one of his personal passions, racecars, in a gritty melodrama that also features excit...( read more  read more... )ing racetrack footage. Veteran toughguy William Smith is top-billed as a champion drag racer who clashes with the unscrupulous oil-company executive (John Saxon) who sponsors his team. Though lacking the gruesome clinical obsessions of his horror features (Cronenberg admits on the disc's commentary that the film was a tax shelter for its Canadian producers), Fast Company is also fascinated with internal machinery (here, car engines instead of human bodies), and it's easily Cronenberg's most approachable film, with plenty of automotive action alongside the solid performances (the cast includes B-movie queen Claudia Jennings in her final performance). --Paul Gaita

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PG, 93 min.

Directed by: David Cronenberg

Release Date: January 1, 1979

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DVD Release Date: April 27, 2004

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  • September 13, 2006
    Good redneck drama. Not typical of Cronenberg's work but his love of cars shines through (of course.)
  • March 26, 2009
    This was the kind of film that you see and then just kind of shrug and then forget about it. I thought some of it was interesting, but it was mostly just okay.
  • April 28, 2008
    Boring racing movie that has nothing to do with Cronenberg's usual style.
  • May 15, 2007
    this is a grat film lol
  • May 9, 2007
    While it doesn't sound like my kind of movie at all, Cronenberg is one of my favorite directors, so I'll give it a chance.
  • April 24, 2007
    Cool move with a flopper running on the street :-)
  • March 18, 2007
    great...and exciting.....

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