Thrill Seekers (film)
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| Directed by | Mario Azzopardi |
| Written by |
Kurt Inderbitzin Gay Walch |
| Starring |
Casper Van Dien Catherine Bell Julian Richings |
| Music by | Fred Mollin |
| Distributed by | TBS |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Thrill Seekers (also known as "The Time Shifters") is a 1999 science fiction thriller film featuring Casper Van Dien, Catherine Bell, Julian Richings and Martin Sheen. The film aired on October 17, 1999 on TBS.
The film was shot in Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Tom Merrick (Van Dien) is a TV reporter filming a live segment on a fire at a power plant. He spots a creepy-looking man (Richings), causing him to move away from his crew. This accidentally saves his life as the crew is killed in the partial collapse of a building. After the accident, Merrick gives up his job as a reporter and begins working for a magazine.
While researching catastrophes, he finds several pictures of the man from the power plant, who appears to turn up in different disasters (sinking of Titanic, Hindenburg disaster and hurricane Hugo), but who still looks the same in all the pictures. Merrick's boss Eleanor books him a flight to Washington, D.C. to get the original photographs. On the plane, he spots the man from the power plant and checks his luggage. He finds a flyer and discovers a future enterprise-—Thrill Seekers-—will make time travel possible in the year 2070 and will sell trips to the past. These trips allow travellers to visit a catastrophe before it happens, but are able to travel back in time again before they get killed. Merrick finds out that the flight he is on will be involved in a mid-air collision, killing everyone on board.
Merrick forces the pilots to change course, which saves the plane from crashing. The mysterious man disappears before landing. Merrick is arrested by the FBI on the charge of hijacking. Agent Baker is sure about the hijacking attempt while his younger assistant Agent Stanton believes Merrick's story. The averted disaster causes changes in the future, so Thrill Seekers sends agents Cortez and Felder to the past to stop Merrick. The agents kidnap Merrick, but he is able to escape and hide.
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