When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.When the closure of a railway is announced, employees commandeer a locomotive to get to corporate headquarters and confront the president.
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- TriviaThe film used Union Pacific tracks in Arkansas, which were formerly the tracks of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Mary Steenburgen was born in Arkansas and her father was a freight train conductor on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
- GoofsThe idea that a major rail company would suddenly become an air freight company overnight is completely unthinkable. Railroads make most of their money hauling material in bulk, which includes vast amounts of coal. Not only would coal be impossible to ship by air, but so would other heavy bulk materials such as ore, steel, lumber, chemicals, grain, scrap metals, and even heavy machinery. Railroads excel at moving the most heaviest of goods efficiently and have yet to be proved obsolete by any other mode of transport in this field. The only competition air is to rail is that of passengers and time-sensitive mail and packages, but "Southland" is said to be doing only "air freight."
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[in the locomotive's cab speeding towards a cop car]
Leo Pickett: Better slow up, they ain't moving.
Will Haney: Oh they'll move.
Leo Pickett: [looking around] There any selt belts in these things?
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Written by Jon Tiven, Sally Tiven & Jolyon Christopher Dantzig
Performed by The Sally Tiven Orchestra featuring Alan Merrill
© 1984 Private Domain Music/Dantzig-In-The-Streets Music (BMI)
Produced by Jon Tiven
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I don't like being lied to.
A fish-out-of-water, high-concept indie comedy with goofy humor and broad characters...that's actually fairly funny, despite it's MAGA-approved fight-against-progress ethos. Brimley and Helm are so well-casted, and Balaban's small part only further proves his comic genius; but don't believe the poster...Kevin Pork-fat is barely in this joker.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $25,000
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $25,000
- Aug 30, 1987
- Gross worldwide
- $25,000
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