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Quicksilver

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Quicksilver

PG

1986

1h 46m

Adventure

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A hotshot stock-exchange floor trader (Kevin Bacon) loses his shirt and becomes a bicycle messenger in a hilly city.

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Paul Attanasio

Washington Post

Quicksilver youthsploitation moviemaking at its most youthsploitative, doesn't include breakdancing, although it does include bikedancing, which sort of rhymes with breakdancing.

Jan 3, 2018

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Walter Goodman

New York Times

As long as the characters are doing stunts or whizzing impossibly through city traffic to a strong rock beat, there's something to watch. For the rest of the time, ''Quicksilver'' is as much fun as a slow leak.

May 21, 2003

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

The movie has moments when it comes to life, when it threatens to tell a story about interesting people, and then it wanders off into inane scenes designed only to sell records.

Rated: 2/4

Jan 1, 2000

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David Nusair

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Quicksilver fares best in its familiar yet entertaining opening stretch...

Rated: 2/4

Jan 1, 2021

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Still holds up well and entertains thoroughly.

Aug 5, 2013

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Film Threat

Rated: 0.5/5

Dec 6, 2005

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Rd M

AMAZING 80s movie I watched it 100 times as a kid and just again

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/11/24

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Steve D

The script is laughable and way too self serious.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/30/23

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Cheney W

Despite what the reviews say, this film was beautifully shot. It's a snapshot in time of urban 1980s America. The acting is… not the best. And the stereotyping and typecasting makes you gag. But still, you got Kevin Bacon and Laurence Fishburne flying through the city streets together. Paul Rodriguez is absolutely wonderful. The scene with the bike tricks is incredible. And the lack of any coherent plot leaves you guessing as to what comes next.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/02/23

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Audience Member

The pitch is basically Breakin' (with bikes) meets Trading Places, so I guess it's Bikin' Places?

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Audience Member

An enjoyable film if you are in to bicycles.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Audience Member

When you are a 12 year old kid as I was in 1986, this movie was great. It made being a bicycle messenger on a fixed gear bike with no brakes cool way before Premium Rush. I get that some people think it sucks, but if you watch it from the prospective of a subculture of people that don't want the status quo, it's a great movie. Not to mention the freestyle bike trick scene is still one of the greatest ever. I give it 5 stars just to boost the rating.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Synopsis

A hotshot stock-exchange floor trader (Kevin Bacon) loses his shirt and becomes a bicycle messenger in a hilly city.

Director: Tom Donnelly
Producer: Daniel Melnick, Michael I. Rachmil
Screenwriter: Tom Donnelly
Production Co: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Rating: PG
Genre: Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 25, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.6M
Runtime: 1h 46m
Sound Mix: Surround

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