Flashback (film)

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Flashback
Directed by	Franco Amurri
Written by	David Loughery
Starring	Dennis Hopper Kiefer Sutherland Carol Kane Paul Dooley Cliff De Young
Music by	Barry Goldberg
Cinematography	Stefan Czapsky
Editing by	C. Timothy O'Meara
Distributed by	Paramount
Release date(s)	1990
Running time	107 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

Ratings
United States:	R (Restricted)

Flashback is a 1990 film starring Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland and Carol Kane, written by David Loughery and directed by Franco Amurri. The film received an R rating by the MPAA.

1 Plot
2 Soundtrack
3 Trivia
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Hopper plays Huey Walker, a hippie and a former New Left radical who has been on the run from the law for 20 years for something he did not do, disconnecting Spiro Agnew's train car in Spokane, Washington. Sutherland plays John Buckner, the FBI agent who is to transport Huey Walker back to Spokane for trial. (Later in the movie, it is revealed that Buckner was raised on a communal farm and that his real given name is Free). They take the railroad out of Oakland, California to Spokane since the airport is fogged in. A scheduled stopover in the fictional town of Marsden, Oregon near Portland leads to a number of misadventures and forces both Walker and Buckner to confront their own pasts.

[edit] Soundtrack

The movie produced a fairly popular soundtrack made up of a mix of 60's music and 80's alternative music. The highlight is the theme song "Free", which is only available on this soundtrack; it was never included in any Big Audio Dynamite collection. A remake of the song, titled "Kickin' In", was later recorded by Big Audio Dynamite II and included on the Kool-Aid (album).

Track Listing

1. Free (Theme Song From Flashback) - Big Audio Dynamite
2. Fatal Attraction (And It's So Strange...) - The Ultraviolets
3. Next Time(I'll Dream Of You) - Flesh For Lulu
4. Walk On The Wild Side - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
5. It's The End Of The World As We Know It - R.E.M.
6. People Get Ready - Bob Dylan
7. On The Road Again - Canned Heat
8. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
9. Comin' Back To Me - Jefferson Airplane
10. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

[edit] Trivia

Sutherland and Hopper would work together in the first season of Sutherland's hit show 24. Hopper played the main antagonist, Victor Drazen, chief architect of the first day's revenge plot.