IMDb plot summary: Fraser's unrequited love for the beautiful and rich Ginny gets a chance to prove itself, when she is suddenly kidnapped. He teams up with rebel Mac, who's got a score to settle with the kidnappers. Together they cross the country, looking for Ginny and the bad guys.
Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman. Starring Michael Dudikoff, Stephen Dorff, Ami Dolenz, and Peter DeLuise.
This movie is SLEAZY. For one thing, the film's "hero" only sees the kidnapping because he'd gone to that spot to creepily take pictures of her skinny dipping. And then there are multiple scenes of grown adults hitting on these teenage characters (and more), which is just portrayed a totally OK, totally cool thing in this film, but I found it pretty horrifying. Some of the scenes with the kidnappers were mildly amusing, and the kidnapped girl definitely takes back her agency throughout the film, which is cool, but there's just a lot of stuff in here that has aged very uncomfortably and made it impossible to enjoy even if the rest of it were better. Which it's not. This isn't good.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Rescue Me < Mudbound
Rescue Me < The King
Rescue Me < Live Free or Die Hard
Rescue Me > Turner and Hooch
Rescue Me < Man of Steel
Rescue Me < Yes Man
Rescue Me < The Waiting Game
Rescue Me < No Greater Love
Rescue Me > Thr3e
Rescue Me > Chicken Little
Rescue Me < Reefer Madness (1936)
Final spot: #3147 out of 3367, or 7%.
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