Posts Tagged ‘riding-freight-train’

Starman (1984)

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bridges, Jeff | Allen, Karen | Smith, Charles Martin | Jaeckel, Richard | Phalen, Robert | Edwards, Tony | Davis, John Walter | White, Ted | Blocker, Dirk | Gainey, M.C. | Stanek, Sean | Flower, George 'Buck' | Benning, Russ | Cosham, Ralph | Wells, David
Directors: Carpenter, John
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An alien who has crash-landed in the United States takes on the the appearance of a woman’s dead husband and enlists her help to escape from pursuing authorities and rendezvous with a spacecraft on the other side of the country. As he learns how to be more human the alien begins to take on more and more qualities of the woman’s husband, drawing the woman closer.

Runaway Train (1985)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Israel | USA
Actors: Voight, Jon | Roberts, Eric | Heffner, Kyle T. | Ryan, John P. | Carter, T.K. | McMillan, Kenneth | Wyatt, Walter | Bunker, Edward | Cruickshanks, Reid | Wray, Dan | Gogin, Michael Lee | Bloom, John | Worden, Hank | Otrin, John | Gibbs, Norman Alexander
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Manny is the “boss” of the convicts in an Alaskan high security prison. Renken, the heartless prison’s administrator wants to kill him, so Manny escapes with the help of another young prisoner, Buck, who follows him. The two fugitives manage to get to a rail depot and get onboard a train. The problem is, the engineer has died and the the train is totally out of control, and nothing can stop it. So, leaving the prison, Manny and Buck find themselves aboard something that is both their freedom and their death…