Space Truckers

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Space Truckers, written and directed by Stuart Gordon, is a comedy/sci-fi movie released in the spring of 1996.

They've shipped everything from square pigs to anti-gravity beer... But now they've got a load of real trouble.

John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.

Filmed at Ardmore Studios - Herbert Road, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The movie begins on the farside outpost on one of Neptune's moons, Triton, where E.G. Saggs, the big boss of the company, and Dr. Nabel have created a cyborg warrior that is practically unstoppable. But Saggs betrays Nabel and has one of the warriors kill him. He continue on to his plan to take a bunch of them to Earth and conquer it.

After a brawl on the space station where Keller, the trucker-boss-guy gets killed, John, Cindy and Mike take a job to deliver some "Sex dolls" to Earth. They all know the cargo isn't really sex dolls, but they have to get away from the station and this shady job is all they can get. Unfortunately, John decides to go through the scum-zone, a section of space ruled by pirates. The truck is damaged and the pirates capture them. Cindy agrees to have sex with the captain of the pirates if he'll only take their cargo and let them go. The Captain turns out to be Nabel. He didn't die when Saggs betrayed him, and he rebuilt himself into a rather pathetic cyborg. One of the cyborgs breaks out of the containers and kills a lot of the pirates. This gives Cindy a chance to escape and free John and Mike. They take off to Earth, but the wounded captain is onboard. Dying, the captain tells John and Mike the truth about their cargo. When they get to Earth a whole kaboodle of the cyborgs are loose. John tells Cindy and Mike to take the escape pod and he'll release the cargo in the atmosphere so it will burn up on reentry. He does so but his truck is destroyed also. John releases Cindy from their deal and she marries Mike. They go see Cindy's mom, who is young and in good condition. It turns out that when she first got sick 20 years ago she was frozen. Now that science can cure her, she's been unfrozen. John is smitten with her. But within the few days or so that this story unfolded, Saggs has been elected World President. He visits the heroes in the hospital and offers John a new truck and a suitcase full of money if the group will keep quiet about his cyborg plan. John agrees, but Mike is angry. He throws the suitcase out of the window just as Saggs is getting in his limo. Saggs has, of course planted a bomb in the case and pushes the detonator button just as the case hits his limo, killing himself. With Saggs dead and Earth safe, Mike, Cindy, John and Cindy's mom blast off in the brand new truck that Saggs gave them.

Spoilers end here.

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