Collision Course (film)

Collision Course
The DVD artwork for Collision Course.
Directed by	Lewis Teague
Produced by	Ted Field Robert W. Cort
Written by	Frank Darius Namei Robert Resnikoff
Starring	Jay Leno Pat Morita Chris Sarandon
Music by	Ira Newborn
Studio	Interscope Communications
Distributed by	HBO Home Video
Release date(s)	April 1989
Running time	100 min.
Language	English

Collision Course is a 1989 action-comedy film starring Jay Leno as a Detroit police officer and Pat Morita as a Japanese cop forced to work together to recover a Japanese turbocharger stolen by villainous Chris Sarandon. It was directed by Lewis Teague and unreleased in the U.S. until 1992, when it debuted on home video. (When Morita guest-starred on The Tonight Show in 1989, with Leno serving as guest host, they recalled that the movie had run out of money on the last day of filming, with key scenes yet to be shot and no budget left for editing and post-production.)

The story plays upon the culture clash between Detroit - whose economy is largely built on the automobile - and Japan - whose export of cars was blamed for Detroit job losses.

Cast

Pat Morita - Fujitsuka Natsuo

Jay Leno - Tony Costas

Chris Sarandon - Madras

Tom Noonan - Scully

Dennis Holahan - Derrick Jarryd

Ernie Hudson - Shortcut

John Hancock - Lt. Ryerson

Al Waxman - Dingman

Soon-Tek Oh - Kitao

Randall "Tex" Cobb -Kosnic

External links

• Collision Course at the Internet Movie Database