Runaway Daughters (1994 film)
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Runaway Daughters is a 1994 television film directed by Joe Dante that originally aired on the cable television network Showtime as part of the anthology series Rebel Highway. It is a loose remake of Runaway Daughters, an American International Pictures production from 1956, the year in which both the original and the remake are set. Much of the cast of Dante's The Howling is reunited on this film, including Christopher Stone, Dee Wallace, Robert Picardo, Dick Miller, and Belinda Balaski.
Plot
The title characters are Angie Gordon, Mary Nicholson, and Laura Cahn. Their
Cast
- Julie Bowen as Angie Gordon
- Holly Fields as Mary Nicholson
- Jenny Lewis as Laura Cahn
- Dick Miller as Roy Farrell
- Paul Rudd as Jimmy Rusoff
- Chris Young as Bob Randolph
Production
The Gordons are played by the Stones, the Nicholsons by Balaski and Innerspace's Joe Flaherty, and the Cahns played by Picardo and Wendy Schaal, also both late of Innerspace. Dick Miller plays Roy Farrell, a private detective hired to find the girls. Also in small roles are Dante regular Mark McCraken and the producer of the original version, Samuel Z. Arkoff. Roger Corman, along with his wife, Julie Corman, play the parents of the boyfriend of one of the title characters.
The script was written by Charles S. Haas and in many ways is a companion piece to his previous collaboration with Dante, Matinee.
Fabian Forte, who was under contract to AIP in the sixties, has a small role.[1][2]
Release
The film originally aired on Showtime on August 12, 1994.
Home media
The film was released on DVD in March 2005.
References
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (26 August 2019). "The Cinema of Fabian". Diabolique.
- ^ Roger, Christian. "kseries". Retrieved 12 January 2024.
External links
- Runaway Daughters at IMDb