TIME RUNNER

TIME RUNNER. Canada: North American Pictures/Excalibur Pictures (prod., (c) holder) / New Line Cinema/North America Releasing, 1992. Michael Mazo, dir. Lloyd A. Simandl and John A. Curtis, prod. Mark Hamill, Rae Dawn Chong, stars. 90 min.

Routine time-travel story with a barely disguised commercial for "the Strategic Defense Initiative" and other high-tech space warfare plans now (in 1992) to protect us from an alien invasion's succeeding in 2022.