Quicksilver Highway
Quicksilver Highway | |
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Directed by | Mick Garris |
Produced by |
Mick Garris Ron Mitchell |
Screenplay by | Mick Garris |
Based on |
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Starring |
Christopher Lloyd Matt Frewer Raphael Sbarge |
Music by | Mark Mothersbaugh |
Cinematography | Shelly Johnson |
Edited by | Norman Hollyn |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
Release dates |
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Running time | 90 min |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $4,000,000 (estimated) |
Box office | N/A |
Quicksilver Highway is a 1997 horror film directed by Mick Garris. It is based on Clive Barker's short story "The Body Politic" and Stephen King's short story "Chattery Teeth". The film was originally shown on television before being released on video.
Plot
The main story is centered on Aaron Quicksilver (played by Christopher Lloyd), a travelling showman who tells horror stories to the people he meets. He first runs into a newly married couple who are hitchhiking, to whom he tells the story "Chattery Teeth", about a man who is saved from a dangerous hitchhiker by a set of wind-up toy teeth. He later runs into a pickpocket to whom he tells the story "The Body Politic", a story about a man whose hands rebel against him.
Cast
- Christopher Lloyd: Aaron Quicksilver
- Matt Frewer: Charlie/Dr. Charles George
- Raphael Sbarge: Kerry Parker/Bill Hogan
- Melissa Lahlitah Crider: Olivia Harmon Parker/Lita Hogan
- Silas Weir Mitchell: Bryan Adams
- Bill Nunn: Len
- Veronica Cartwright: Myra
- Bill Bolender: Scooter
- Amelia Heinle: Darlene
- Cynthia Garris: Ellen George
- Kevin Grevioux: Sergeant
- Christopher Hart: Lefty
- William Knight: Rhinoplasty Man
- Shawn Nelson: Driver
- Sherry O'Keefe: Harriet DaVinci
- Clive Barker: Anesthesiologist
- Constance Zimmer: Patient
- Mick Garris: Surgeon
- John Landis: Surgical Assistant
See also
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