DRAGSTRIP GIRL (1994)

MORGAN'S RATING

COMING SOON

Mark Dacascos stars in this film, part of Showtime's Rebel Highway series, a remake of the 1957 B-movie classic. Dacascos is Johnny, a young Latino prone to drag racing who works as a valet during the day and has dreams of climbing the social ladder and beginning of professional career. However, when he meets Laura, a rich white girl who drives a T-bird and likes to play bad, they begin a tumultuous relationship that could jeopardize his future.

Mark Dacascos (Johnny), Raymond Cruz (Doggie), Natasha Gregson Wagner (Laura), Traci Lords (Blanche), John Bradley (Jack), Maria Celedonio (Pearl), Frederick Coffin (Mr. Bickford), Caroline Mignini (Mrs. Bickford), Luis Contreas (Raoul), Christopher Crabb (Alex), Richard Ehrlich (Buddy), G. Adam Gifford (Evan), Bill A. Jones, Richard Portnow (Detective Dryden), Augusto Cesar Sandino (Anthony), Doug Toby (Louie), Tracy Wells (Megan), Gary Wentz (McCarthy).

FAST CARS. FASTER WOMEN.

FACTS

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

RELEASE DATE: September 2nd, 1994 (USA) (TELEVISION PREMIERE)

DIRECTOR: Mary Lambert. WRITER: Jerome Gary. PRODUCERS: Lou Arkoff, David Giler, Debra Hill and Willie Kutner. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Amy Grauman Danziger. ORIGINAL MUSIC: Hummie Mann. DISTRIBUTOR: Buena Vista Home Video.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

"That Dragstrip Girl inspires core disgust because of its confounding badness is probably not reason enough to see it." -- Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

"You could make a worse movie than Dragstrip Girl, but you'd really have to try awful hard." -- Christopher Null, filmcritic.com