Andrew Smith, Charles McCaughan, David Harris

A hotshot stockbroker bets it all--and loses it all--in one day, effectively ruining all his customers while ending his career. So, naturally, he turns to that old stockbroker standby: he becomes a bi...( read more  read more... )cycle messenger. Kevin Bacon may have made this film simply to extend the strands of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game; it's hard to imagine any other reason. Otherwise, this mid-'80s film stands as yet another example of a movie influenced by MTV without understanding what MTV does. Eventually, Bacon leads the exploited masses of messengers in an uprising against unfair labor practices by the evil bosses. There's an original concept. Notable as yet another film to give a role to the dazzlingly untalented Jami Gertz. --Marshall Fine

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PG, 101 min.

Directed by: Thomas Michael Donnelly

Release Date: February 14, 1986

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DVD Release Date: December 10, 2002

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  • February 18, 2009
    Kevin Bacon followed his breakout role in Footloose with this story of a washed up stock broker who finds his calling as bicycle messenger. He's surrounded by stereotypical, yet colorful characters played by recognizable character actors like Paul Rodriguez, Louis Anderson, Jamie...( read more) Gertz, and pre-Matrix Laurence Fishburne as Voodoo, a messenger who doesn't care about what he delivers, even if it is for the local drug runner, known as The Gypsy. The movie is filled with lots of bicycyle stunts, and even an impromptu freestyle competition. There's also character conflict as Bacon tries to recapture his stock broker ways, better the lives of his fellow messengers, and bring down The Gypsy when he begins to hurt his friends. A mid-80's movie, it's filled with big hair, wild clothing styles, and requisite pop music, probably meant to fuel soundtrack sales. For Bacon it was cashing a paycheck on the road to cult classics like Tremors, and adding more links to the Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon game.
  • November 8, 2008
    My uncle brought this down for me to watch when I was really young and I tried for ages to remember what it was called 'cos the ending was quite thrilling stuff. Kevin Bacon is a Wall Street tycoon who loses it all but finds himself (isn't it always the way?) as a bicycle courier...( read more) in mid-eighties Manhattan. Tellingly, he only becomes cool after he loses the sensible yuppie 'tache, grows a mullet and begins favouring waistcoats. Larry Fishburne adds extra cred as rival cyclist Voodoo, and Roger Daltrey sings the atrocious theme tune.
  • October 30, 2008
    Since I work part time as a Bicycle Courier, this is our movie!
  • October 22, 2008
    I might have seen this as a kid but I'm not sure. And I'm definitely not willing to Netflix it to find out.
  • September 21, 2008
    awesome, awesome and awesome
  • June 19, 2008
    This is a really good movie. A great movie from the 80's!
  • December 28, 2007
    enjoyable hard luck turn out good story
  • September 25, 2007
    It was a Good movie!
  • July 17, 2007
    Åttiotal med Kevin Bacon som börsmäklare som väljer att bli cykelbud. Och cykelbuden är ju de tuffaste och coolaste grabbsen i stan..haha!

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  • AngelitadeAmor
    February 21, 2007
    Muchusima accion en esta movie me facino el final mucho...

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