Friday Morning Videos: USED CARS

August 14th, 2009 at 11:09am Will Pfeifer

THE GOOD opens this weekend, and while this Jeremy Piven comedy about a car lot trying to sell off everything might be amusing, I highly doubt it’s going to match the comic brilliance of USED CARS, the 1980 Bob Zemeckis film starring Kurt Russell as a salesman with an astounding lack of scruples.

Here’s a scene with my favorite actor in the cast, Gerrit Graham, playing Rudy, Kurt’s superstitious buddy. All you need to know is (a) Rudy refuses to drive a red car, (b) Rudy is driving a red car, and (c) Rudy has to get the car to the lot ASAP. Oh, and (d) Kurt has explained to him that, because it has a coat of gray primer, it’s really a gray car. Got it? Okay…

There’s an even better stunt that precedes this one, with Rudy stumbling backwards across the highway and just narrowly avoiding getting hit by an oncoming car. I couldn’t find that one online, but if you rent the movie, keep an eye out for it. I think it was accomplished by (a) hiring a very good stunt driver and (b) not telling Graham just how close he was to the car.

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