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Tagline: "At Helltrack...The Heat Is On."

The film's story focuses on Cru Jones (actor Bill Allen), a young BMX racer who lives in a small town with his mother (Talia Shire of Rocky and The Godfather fame) and sister. Cru is faced with a tough decision. The qualifying races for Helltrack are the same day as his SAT's, which he must take in order to attend college. However, winning Helltrack means a lucrative sponsorship deal and fame. Cru's choice should be obvious. Bill Allen (William Lawrence Allen) (Born 7 November 1962 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American film and television actor. ... A BMX Race. ... Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946), is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. ... Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. ... The Godfather is a 1972 crime film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with screenplay by Puzo and Coppola. ...

The Helltrack race is endorsed by the city and a duplicitous Duke Best, (Jack Weston) who keeps on adjusting the rules in order to keep Cru out of the race. This is to ensure BMX star Bart Taylor (1984 Olympic gymnastics champion Bart Conner) has an easy road to victory, and provide a financial windfall for Mongoose racing, Bart's sponsor. Mongoose manipulates Best in order to see that their star has little competition from the local sensation, Cru. Weston as Pig in The Cincinnati Kid Jack Weston (August 21, 1924 - May 3, 1996), born Jack Weinstein, was an American movie and television actor. ...

There are moments of comic relief. For example, the lumberyard chase scene with Cru and the policeman. The "butt sliding" scene's build the romance between Cru and his new friend. Also memorable is the shin kicking younger sister of Cru.

Racers from all around come to this small town for the Helltrack and Cru meets Christian (Lori Loughlin) who provides the romantic interest. Christian and Cru have an interesting scene at the local high school dance, where instead of dancing like the other couples, they perform freestyle bike stunts on the dance floor (bicycle boogie), creating quite an impression on the rest of the crowd. After being blocked from the race due to a last minute rule change regarding sponsorship, Cru is ready to give up his dreams of winning Helltrack. Christian provides Cru with an idea of how he can still enter the race, and seed capital to get that idea off of the ground. After founding "Rad Racing," Cru is finally able to enter Helltrack, the movie's climactic final race. During the race at Helltrack, Cru does a backflip out of a sponsored bowl of Kix cereal. Lori Anne Loughlin (born July 28, 1964) is an American actress who gained prominence in the 1990s as playing the wife of John Stamoss character, Rebecca Donaldson, on ABCs, Full House. ...

Soundtracks and trivia

• The song "Send me an Angel" performed by Real Life was played in the school dance scene with Cru and Cristian performing a freestyle dance called the "bicycle boogie" with BMX bikes on the dance floor. Cochrane HS in Cochrane, AB was used for this scene. In the movie you can spot the Cochrane Cobra logo on the wall

• The movie's soundtrack was composed by John Farnham, including the film's signature songs "Break the Ice" and "Thunder in Your Heart".

• The opening credits include flatland and pipeline vert action from the big BMX freestylers of the day, some of whom make cameos at Helltrack as Cru's professional competition.

• The infamous "pipeline" (now destroyed) provides some valuable historical riding footage of real and famous BMX'ers before BMX's post 90's X Games revival. This track was created in Calgary's, Bowness Park.

• The character Bart Taylor was played by Olympic gymnast Bart Conner. He is the only male American gymnast to ever win gold medals at all levels in both national and international competitions.

• The BMX stunt riders were brought in from the USA and Canada. There was a large mix of BMX racers and BMX freestylers in the movie, hence the freestyle bikes being seen in the movie racing. Local Calgary pro's such as Scott Fleurie, Jeff Ingram, and Tyler Bolhorn can be seen in many of the scenes.

• RAD was filmed primarily in Cochrane and Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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External links

• Rad at the Internet Movie Database
• Rad at Google Video

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