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javasaurusFor a few years now, I've been trying to find the title of a movie that I saw in the mid-80s. Well I found it!
All I could really remember about the movie was that it was Gene Hackman as the boring dad of an angst-ridden teenage son, the two were in a cafe, when gunfire breaks out. The two get out of the cafe, and to the car, where the son says something like, let me drive, Dad, this is too much for you. Turns out, though, that the father had been playing the meek role for years, that he was really ex-CIA, and very action oriented, much to the son's surprise! Car chase ensues. I think the car they were in was a Mini Cooper. I also thought it was an older movie when I saw it (on videotape).
People would suggest French Connection (1971, Gene Hackman) or Italian Job (little car, 1969), but they didn't really seem right. Turns out the movie was new in the 80s, a 1985 flick called "Target" with Gene Hackman as the father, and Matt Damon as the son.
Now if I can just remember the name of that movie from the 70s -- all I remember is a large globular space station and swords made out of lasers. But that can't be right, can it?
All I could really remember about the movie was that it was Gene Hackman as the boring dad of an angst-ridden teenage son, the two were in a cafe, when gunfire breaks out. The two get out of the cafe, and to the car, where the son says something like, let me drive, Dad, this is too much for you. Turns out, though, that the father had been playing the meek role for years, that he was really ex-CIA, and very action oriented, much to the son's surprise! Car chase ensues. I think the car they were in was a Mini Cooper. I also thought it was an older movie when I saw it (on videotape).
People would suggest French Connection (1971, Gene Hackman) or Italian Job (little car, 1969), but they didn't really seem right. Turns out the movie was new in the 80s, a 1985 flick called "Target" with Gene Hackman as the father, and Matt Damon as the son.
Now if I can just remember the name of that movie from the 70s -- all I remember is a large globular space station and swords made out of lasers. But that can't be right, can it?
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