Quicksilver Highway

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Quicksilver Highway
Directed by Mick Garris
Produced by Mick Garris
Ron Mitchell
Written by Stephen King (short story Chattery Teeth)
Clive Barker (short story The Body Politic)
Mick Garris (teleplay)
Starring Christopher Lloyd
Matt Frewer
Raphael Sbarge
Missy Crider
Bill Nunn
Veronica Cartwright
Music by Mark Mothersbaugh
Cinematography Shelly Johnson
Editing by Norman Hollyn
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date(s) May 13, 1997 (USA)
Running time 90 min
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Budget $4,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue N/A
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Quicksilver Highway is a 1997 horror film directed by Mick Garris. It is based on Clive Barker's short story The Body Politic and Stephen King's short story Chattery Teeth. The film was originally shown on television before being released on video.

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The main story is centered on Aaron Quicksilver (played by Christopher Lloyd), a travelling showman who tells horror stories to the people he meets. He first runs into a newly married couple who are hitchhiking, to whom he tells the story Chattery Teeth, about a man who is saved from a dangerous hitchhiker by a set of wind-up toy teeth. He later runs into a pickpocket to whom he tells the story The Body Politic, a story about a man whose hands rebel against him.

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