The Drifter (1988)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Larry Brand

Writer (WGA):

Larry Brand (written by)

Release Date:

February 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

A dark, tightly focused thriller.

Plot:

A suspensefilled thriller about a successful single woman who, on a deserted road, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker...

Plot Keywords:

Hitchhiker | Psycho Thriller | Stalking | Shot In The Head | Tense

Cast

Kim Delaney	...	Julia Robbins
Timothy Bottoms	...	Arthur
Al Shannon	...	Kriger
Miles O'Keeffe	...	Trey
Anna Garduno	...	Matty (as Anna Gray Garduno)
Loren Haynes	...	Willie Munroe (as Loren Haines)
Larry Brand	...	Morrison
Thomas Wagner	...	Captain Edwards
Ernest Alexander	...	Eugene
JoAnn Willette	...	Carrie (as Joanne Willette)
Gil Christner	...	Gas Attendant
Al Guarino	...	Joe Santini
George Derby	...	Jawbone
Bodacious Bob McVickery	...	Bodacious
Rebecca Reynolds	...	Biker Chick

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:(Banned) (1988) | Finland:K-16 (1989) | USA:R

Company:

Concorde Pictures

Goofs:

Continuity: Julia tears the filter off her cigarette, but a moment later it's back on.

Quotes:

Julia: I don't know whether to suck it or shoot it off.

A lot better than your average low budget thriller

A lot better than your average low budget thriller. This had plot twists that I didn't see coming. Kim Delaney was so beautiful then. I first fell in love with her when she played Jenny Gardner on "All My Children." Her soap experience stood her in good stead for "damsel in distress" roles such as (partly) this. She is, of course, still beautiful, but her character in "NYPD Blue" is so much harder edged, that she comes off a bit less so in that part. Anyway, this is a pretty good film for one that no one's ever heard of.