Rollercoaster (1977)
Actors:
Richard Widmark (actor),
Craig Wasson (actor),
Harry Guardino (actor),
Steve Guttenberg (actor),
Branscombe Richmond (actor),
George Segal (actor),
William Prince (actor),
Robert Quarry (actor),
Michael Bell (actor),
Henry Fonda (actor),
J. Michael Hunter (actor),
Bruce French (actor),
Timothy Bottoms (actor),
Susan Strasberg (actress),
Helen Hunt (actress),
Plot: The plot is about a guile young terrorist who is able to blackmail a series of companies by placing home-made radio controlled bombs within the central attraction of amusement parks; roller coasters. The young man played by Timothy Bottoms gives a hard time to the cops after they give him UV marked money. He then wants revenge and places a bomb in a roller coaster at the most important amusement park event of the year.
Keywords: amusement-park, blackmail, bomb-squad, disaster, disaster-film, ferris-wheel, fourth-of-july, gun, murder, one-word-title
Genres:
Thriller,
Taglines: You are in a race against time...and terror. You are pursuing a nameless, faceless man through America's greatest amusement parks...and, for the first time, you are experiencing the most sensational rides of our time, IN SENSURROUND Ride it...in Sensurround Watch out for the Man watching the Rollercoaster
Quotes:
[speaking to each other over walkie-talkies]::Young Man: First, Harry, I think I should tell you about the bomb. Would you like to know where it is?::Harry Calder: Sure!::Young Man: You're holding it.
Young Man: [after the young man tells Harry he is holding the bomb] Do I have your full attention?::Harry Calder: Screw you!
Fran: Harry?::Harry Calder: Mmh?::Fran: If you're trying to kill us, at least let me put on some lip gloss.
Young Man: If they pay me and if they do what I say, I'll never bother them again.::Harry Calder: Are you sure? Maybe you enjoy it.::Young Man: Wrong psychological profile, Harry. I'm not in this for kicks::Harry Calder: Oh yeah, right, it's only the money. You're a businessman. And in a corrupt society, you're no worse than anybody else. We all cheat on our taxes, Detroit makes defective cars.::Young Man: I'm not enjoying this conversation, Harry.::Harry Calder: Then get yourself another messenger boy.
Tracy Calder: Daddy, Confucius say "with faith, man can move mountain."::Harry Calder: I thought Jesus said that.::Tracy Calder: Well, maybe he did. But according to that fortune cookie...::Fran: Which is yours, by the way...::Tracy Calder: ...Confucius said it too.::Harry Calder: Don't believe everything you read.::Tracy Calder: I think daddy's pissed off.::Harry Calder: Where does she learn language like that? [Fran shrugs]
Keefer: They're over the lift. It's too late to stop them now.::Agent Hoyt: Christ.