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This movie rips off Airplane!, and doesn't even care.
At least the writers of Spy Hard had the brains to change the words. The writer of Backfire!, A. Dean Bell, doesn't bother to do that. He just steals the same exact lines. This movie is a bomb. And not a good bomb, either, like a movie so bad it's good. Still, there are some parts that make me chuckle. Starring in this movie are Kathy Ireland, Robert Mitchum, Telly Savalas, Shelley Winters, Josh Mosby, Mary McCormack, and, in a brief scene, 3rd Rock From The Sun's Kristen Johnston. (Did I spell that right?) Get this movie only if you're a lover of spoofs, like me. ... Read more

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Fed up with her small-town New England life in a dead-end job and an embarrassing mother, nineteen-year-old Alice (Emily Grace) takes off in her car and heads down to Florida.Not long into her escape, things go horribly wrong and her car eventually breaks down on the highway.Two Good Samaritans (Judith Ivey, Bill Raymond) seem to appear out of nowhere and offer to drive Alice the rest of the way.Bill and Sandra are two middle-aged retirees traveling the country in their RV.Sandra takes Alice in, as if she were her own daughter, and Alice happily accepts this surrogate family. But as the highway miles slowly pass, Alice begins noticing some strange things.She soon figures out that things aren't always what they seem to be. ... Read more