821 - TIME CHASERS (video title; 3/17/1994; 1990; NR; 97m) a.k.a. TANGENTS (original) Ad: "The Ultimate Time Transport must be Destroyed to Save the Future..." Video Ad: "His mission is to save the future. But time waits for no man..." Plot: A community college prof invents a time-travel computer program, but trouble ensues when a big corporation misuses it. Prod: Peter Beckwith (also actor; Moving Targets) Prod: Peggy O'Neil Assoc Prod: Joseph Giancola and Barbara A. Giancola Assoc Prod: Peter L. Beckwith Sr. and Barbara A. Beckwith Assoc Prod: Judith Allard Dir/Scr/Sto: David Giancola* Cin: Mark Sasahara Ed: Ace Giancola; and Andrew Wilson (Moving Targets) SFX: Jim Walton, Anne Chamberlain SFX: Ron Marcus, Jim McPhee, Craig Buzzell Cos: Carolyn Palmer M/U: Stacy Dyer PMgr: Stacy Dyer and Ruthellen Weston Score: Alice Damon Kinzie and Bill Kinzie M/L: Peter Beckwith and Alice Damon Kinzie Song: Fantasy Nick Miller / Matthew Bruch (Hot Stuff) Lisa Henson / Bonnie Pritchard Matthew Paul / Peter J. Harrington (Diamond Run) J.K. Robertson / George Woodard (Ethan Frome; August Roads) cabbie / Michael J. Valentine (Diamond Run; Last Rites) Richter / Jim Rohn Gris / Ted Pendleton Becks / Becky Fenton Mick / Jack McGinnis Marty / Martin Guigui Scalper / Peter Beckwith (also prod) newspaper editor / Ilene Blackman Nicky / Daniel Nelson Lis / Emily Nelson Nicky's Mom / Margaret Schenck Nicky's Dad / Gary Thompson Gilda Heintz / Roberta Strauss ground controller / Perry Tuttle hangar guard / Terry Travers gate guard / Shawn O'Neil Gen Corp. security / Paul Clifford plane crash investigator / Thaddeus Lorentz sheriff / Lee D. Jones fishermen / Brian Pendleton and Bruce Nelson guy with car / Mike Reczek hologram preacher / Alex Dunn worshipful one / Vicky A. Bourn* 50's waitress / Carolyn Palmer 50's housewife / Bette Fredette Gen Corp. executive / Bill Owens Gen Corp. executive / Sharry Underwood Gen Corp. executive / S. Lue McWilliams Gen Corp. executive / Lori Brown crash site firefighter / Bob Emerick crash site firefighter / Nancee Barney crash site firefighter / Ralph Minard airport rescue driver / Duff Grey limo driver / Paul Vitagliano Banner journalists / Paula Wallace and William Wallace destroyed future inhabitant / Joseph J. O'Rourke destroyed future inhabitant / Harley Squire destroyed future inhabitant / Ruth Dana destroyed future inhabitant / Jan Chapados destroyed future inhabitant / Jill Jedrzejewski destroyed future inhabitant / Johnny Jedrzejewski destroyed future inhabitant / Christine Olson destroyed future inhabitant / Crystal Bean destroyed future inhabitant / Adam Ross destroyed future inhabitant / Bill April destroyed future inhabitant / Kevin Callahan destroyed future inhabitant / Patricia Dana destroyed future inhabitant / Tyler Dana destroyed future inhabitant / Janna Jedrzejewski destroyed future inhabitant / Wade Altman destroyed future inhabitant / Diana April destroyed future inhabitant / Laura Bean destroyed future inhabitant / Rachel Prozeller future inhabitant / Tim Ahonen future inhabitant / William Campbell future inhabitant / Jason Smiley future inhabitant / Erin Darby future inhabitant / Colleen Greer future inhabitant / Matthew Greer future inhabitant / Jeff Haig (prod/Moving Targets) future inhabitant / Darlene Hubacher future inhabitant / Douglas Jaffe future inhabitant / Charlotte Laird future inhabitant / Scott E. Cote future inhabitant / Eleanor Rodgers future inhabitant / Cyrus Rodgers future inhabitant / Laurie Corbin future inhabitant / Matthew Dishman future inhabitant / Geremiah Greer future inhabitant / Zachary Greer future inhabitant / Sean Harper future inhabitant / Jessica Hubacher future inhabitant / Aaron Reil future inhabitant / Ken Nicholson future inhabitant / Rachel Prozeller Revolutionary War soldier / Hilton H. Dyer III Revolutionary War soldier / Richard Fisher Revolutionary War soldier / Charles Correll Revolutionary War soldier / Douglas Patraw Revolutionary War soldier / Richard Church Revolutionary War soldier / Darrell English Revolutionary War soldier / John Didio Revolutionary War soldier / John Rondeau Revolutionary War soldier / John Rice Revolutionary War soldier / Nancy Church Gen Corp. guard / Roger Hamel Gen Corp. guard / Nick Spanos Gen Corp. guard / Chris Mayka Gen Corp. guard / Ralph Minard Gen Corp. guard / Robert Reiber Gen Corp. guard / Gregory Tulolen Gen Corp. guard / Teague Hunziker Gen Corp. guard / Tor Loney Gen Corp. guard / Morgan McGee Gen Corp. guard / Jeff Quesnel Gen Corp. guard / Dennis Smith Gen Corp. guard / Bob Welch Gen Corp. guard / Robert Barrett Classic Line: "Whoa! Minutemen! Correction...PISSED Minutemen!" Classic Line: "Matt, it's time for you to decide if you're going to be one of my team players or not." Trivia: TIME CHASERS has the honor of being the MSTed movie with the most credited performers...104!. Even though TIME CHASERS can be painful to watch at times, when you consider the circumstances under which this film was made, it's not so bad after all. (It's a helluva lot better than the $100M disaster Starship Troopers, which this Drive-In Dirt author considers to be one of the worst movies of all). Director DAVID GIANCOLA has been generous to us MSTies and shares with us directly the information here. Giancola, who was only 20 years old at the time, filmed scenes for TANGENTS a.k.a. TIME CHASERS on weekends in the summer 1990 and on a miniscule budget of $150,000. Location shots were done in and around Rutland, Vermont: downtown; the Rutland State Airport; the Rutland Mall (scenes of the future); the delapidated Howe-Richardson scale factory (scenes of the destroyed future); and the Opera House (Gen Corp. CEO's office). Post-production was not completed until 1993, and the film premiered in March 1994. TANGENTS even won a Gold Award at the Houston WorldFest Film Festival. (You can imagine what the other entries were like). The sale of the broadcast rights for TIME CHASERS to the Sci-Fi Channel/MST3000 made film finally break even. Giancola heads his movie company, Edgewood Motion Picture and Video, in Rutland, where he continues to use location sites for his movies and commercials. Giancola films hundreds of commercials yearly in Vermont and New York. Each time he makes a movie, it has a bigger budget and more familiar cast. 19??'s PRESSURE POINT starred Steve Railsback and Larry Linville (from TV's M.A.S.H.). 19??'s DIAMOND RUN featured Richard Lynch (from 904-WEREWOLF). (Both were screened at the Cannes Film Festival!) 1998's MOVING TARGETS stars Miles O'Keeffe (Ator in 301-CAVE DWELLERS) and Burt Ward, who played Robin in the mid-1960's camp TV series Batman. Want more? You can visit Giancola's website, Edgewood Studios. Contrary to the claims of a few other websites, Lisa Kudrow does not play the so-called "woman at fountain." That's VICKY A. BOURN, who got the part--billed as "worshipful one" in the credits--due to a time-honored moviemaking tradition...she was dating the producer. Last Updated: 6/3/2003 Welcome! | Author, Contributors, Disclaimer | Introduction | FAQs Movies by Year | Titles by Experiment # | Titles by Alphabetical Order Performers and Production Crew