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The Gumball Rally (1976)

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Reviews Counted:9

Fresh:2

Rotten:7

Average Rating:4.3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: A group of wacky characters compete in an illegal auto race known as the Gumball Rally. It starts in New York and finishes in Long Beach, California and there are absolutely no rules.

Starring: Michael Sarrazin, Tim McIntire, Gary Busey, Raul Julia

Starring: Michael Sarrazin, Tim McIntire, Gary Busey, Raul Julia, John Durren, Susan Flannery, Steven Keats, Joanne Nail, Nicholas Pryor, J. Pat O'Malley

Director: Chuck Bail

Director: Chuck Bail

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Aug 30, 2005

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  • It's fast, funny, outrageously illegal - and the granddaddy of the cross-country speed spectacles that have raced across movie screens in the past two generations. Put your pedal to the metal for The Gumball Rally.
  • New York City is the starting point and this supersonic contest ends 2,900 miles later in Los Angeles. In between, director Chuck Bail (coordinator of many classic movie stunt sequences) and a crew of actors and stuntpersons treat you to a truly breakneck road comedy. Gary Busey plays a daredevil in a 600-horsepower Camaro. Raul Julia portrays an Italian Grand Prix champ who's also an incurable romantic in a fast Ferrari. Michael Sarrazin as the race's crafty, overconfident organizer pilots a classic Cobra. Ready, set, zoom!
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    One of many coast-to-coast car-race films indistinguishable from the others.

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    05/05/08
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    Former stunt coordinator Chuck Bail produced and directed but he didn't have much of a plot.

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    Jake Euker
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    It relies almost exclusively on the exceptional stunt work, the plot only occasionally dropping into first gear for some boring and irrelevant dramatic stuff.

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    06/24/06
    Time Out

    The cars are the stars

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    04/25/06
    Shane Burridge
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    08/17/05
    Emanuel Levy
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    People who pay money to see this effort to find knee-slappers in the 55 mile-an-hour speed limit will also make amiable fools of themselves.

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    05/09/05
    Richard Eder
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    Although we are all going to have the greatest difficulty even remembering the name of The Gumball Rally in three months' time, it is a pleasant, slick, inoffensive entertainment.

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    10/23/04
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