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Jim Belushi with a mullet AND a time machine? The 90s truly had no laws.
TMDB
61
Rotten Tomatoes
57
Audience Score
50

Retroactive (1997)

B-movie brillianceTwilight Zone trashNapalm-hot tension

Overview

AdventureActionDramaScience FictionThriller+1

A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.

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Content warning
serial killer

Standout Aspects

Practical Effects

That exploding car is REAL and it shows

Acting

Belushi commits to unhinged like his life depends on it

Direction

Morneau squeezes every dime from his budget

Best for:Streaming: 3 AM with snacks and zero expectations·Friends: Drinking game: sip every time Belushi says 'darlin'·Rewatch: Catch the timeline logic holes you missed
Heads up:Violence: Domestic violence depicted graphically in multiple timelines·Triggers: Repeated murder of same woman, shown repeatedly
Louis Morneau

Director

Louis Morneau

ReleasedFeb 21, 1997
Runtime1h 31m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacefast
Intensityhigh
Tonedark
Feelmedium
Orion Pictures
Cohiba Pictures

Top Cast

Jim Belushi

Jim Belushi

Frank

Kylie Travis

Kylie Travis

Karen

Shannon Whirry

Shannon Whirry

Rayanne

Frank Whaley

Frank Whaley

Brian

Jesse Borrego

Jesse Borrego

Jesse

M. Emmet Walsh

M. Emmet Walsh

Sam

Roger Clinton, Jr.

Roger Clinton, Jr.

Truck Driver

Sherman Howard

Sherman Howard

Trooper

Guy Boyd

Guy Boyd

Bud

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Trivia

This was Kylie Travis's first lead role after quitting modeling; she trained with actual psychiatrists to sell the science.

Cultural

Retroactive bombed in theaters but became a Sci-Fi Channel staple, arguably inventing the 'so bad it's good' time-travel genre that Tenet later pretended to revolutionize.

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