Product Details

• Actors: Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, Pat Morita, Joanna Pacula, Duncan Regehr, Michael Dorn
• Directors: James Glickenhaus
• Writers: James Glickenhaus
• Producers: Alan M. Solomon, Jefferson Richard, Jerrold W. Lambert, Leonard Shapiro
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios Ho
• VHS Release Date: December 27, 1995
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303871453
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #272,678 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Competant-but-flawed SF/YA, some surprising writing., March 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Timemaster [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Glickenhous family comes together here with a stewpot-of-everything for a decent time-manipulation story centering on Young Jesse being the only one who cares enough to convince a cynical Almost-badguy Pat Morita to help stop a future-based life-and-death-of-innocents-stakes time-manipulation competition from destroying his parents' lives. Flawed by a lackadaisical performance from Dorn, this study in how-to-produce-good-action-scenes-on-budget is great fun. Especially so the more you know your hero films. Hopping from a post-nuclear-war desert near-future to the far future to the late 1800's, it's use of remarkably good first and second-unit camera and stunt work and editing makes for remarkable emulations and dead-on copies of famous scenes and stylings. Stylistically accurate, dangerous and detailed scenes from Leone's mean Italian westerns, Mad Max, Dune, classic biker bar fights, and a stunningly accurate and exhausting Swiss spa location copy of the Bond ski chase (featuring the US free-style ski team) all come together for a demo-reel that would impress anyone. All this is tied together with the director's children in the lead roles and a story that isn;t as bad as it feels with the lethargy that seems to emanate from Dorn's tangible uninvolvement with whatever scene he's in. While Patently absurd at $80 for the tape, especially since the wide screen version is on LD, if it's comes to DVD at basic prices, it's easily worth having as an example of how to get a film done on budget and on time and give the kids a good ride. Easily worth the time and trouble to check this one out.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TOTALLY AWESOME!, May 30, 2002

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Screendoor (The Prairie) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Timemaster [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This has to be one of the best low-budget films of all time! Michelle Williams, Michael Dorn and Pat Morita are awesome! Jesse needs acting lessons, though he is sufficient for the film.

I don't think that many people will see this film. I rented it after I saw it in the video store. I have no idea why it is [$$] bucks..., maybe because it is hard to get, although I haven't tried looking for it hard.

This is a cool movie about a boy who travels through time to try and stop an evil plot by Dorn to destroy the Earth for a game. The game is kind of hard to explain. It is played for a life-giving substance called 'Blue.' Blue gives it's bearer eternal life, but if you stop taking it you die.

Pat Morita enlists Jesse to stop this game and save his parents from being prisoners of the game. The plot is very complicated, you'll just have to see this movie. It's one-in-a-million. I give it 5 stars.

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the worst movie ever, June 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Timemaster [VHS] (VHS Tape)

What a mess! There was way too much that was not explained, for starters. The kid (Jesse) needs some acting lessons. Some special effects were OK, others were terrible - the outer space scenes were a joke, and when the bank blew up I swear that the guys on the balcony were in mid-air *before* the explosion *started*. Sheesh. The virtual game machines were ludicrous as well, and it was some coincidence that Jesse could just hop in and operate a seemingly complex control panel like an expert. Overall it was very difficult to follow, especially how the main characters memory appeard to be selective depending on what time they were in. The story had potential but the poor execution made it one of the worst movies I've ever seen, if the THE worst.