Main Cast: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer, Hudson Leick
Release Year: 1999
Country: US
Run Time: 102 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In this action thriller, the only things standing in the way of world destruction are two guys in an ice cream truck. On a remote island in the South Pacific, a secret weapons project (code name "Elvis") goes wrong, and a new chemical weapon, safe when frozen but deadly when thawed, is allowed to escape. Eighteen soldiers are killed, leaving behind only the scientist who created the formula and the officer in charge of the project, who is saddled with most of the blame. Ten years later, Tim Mason (Skeet Ulrich) is working at a diner in Montana when an old friend, Dr. Richard Long (David Paymer), is seriously wounded by Maj. Andrew Brynner (Peter Firth). It seems that Dr. Long helped create Elvis and Maj. Brynner was the officer who took the fall for the disaster ten years ago. Near death, Long gives Elvis to Mason and tells him that it has to be kept solidly frozen and delivered to Fort Magruder, 90 miles away. But how to keep it at zero degrees until then? A logical solution presents itself when Arlo (Cuba Gooding Jr.), who drives an ice cream truck, makes a delivery to the diner. Mason drafts Arlo into helping him transport Elvis to safety, and before long Brynner's men are hot on the trail of the icy chemical weapon. First-time director Hugh Johnson learned his craft in part through his work as a cameraman for Ridley Scott: he was the cinematographer for White Squall and G.I. Jane. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Daniel Hugh Kelly - Col. Leo Vitelli; Kevin J. O'Connor - Telstar; Judson Mills - Dennis; Jordan Mott - Carl; Dwayne Macopson - Burke; Jim Grimshaw - Deputy Pappas; Rhoda Griffis - Pregnant Woman; Terry Loughlin - Courtroom General; Erin Daniels - Medic #2
Credit
Fredda Slavin - Art Director, Terence Michael - Associate Producer, David C. Robinson - Associate Producer, Pam Dixon - Casting, Martin Wiley - Co-producer, Jeffrey R. Neuman - Co-producer, Deborah Everton - Costume Designer, Artist Robinson - First Assistant Director, Hugh Johnson - Director, Pamela Power - Editor, Jonathan A. Zimbert - Executive Producer, Bill Bannerman - Executive Producer, Hans Zimmer - Composer (Music Score), John Powell - Composer (Music Score), Jeremy Conway - Production Designer, David Gribble - Cinematographer, James G. Robinson - Producer, Claudette Didul - Set Designer, Glenn Rivers - Set Designer, Coleen Balance - Set Designer, Kevin Hardison - Set Designer, Michael H. Ward - Set Designer, Michael Vezina - Special Effects, Bruce Stambler - Sound/Sound Designer, Ken Teaney - Sound/Sound Designer, Chris David - Sound/Sound Designer, Terry Rodman - Sound Editor, Jay Riddle - Special Effects Supervisor, Drew Gitlin - Screenwriter, Mike Cheda - Screenwriter, Jeff Rona - Additional Music
Two mismatched men, Arlo (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) an Ice Cream truck driver, and Tim (Skeet Ulrich), a convenience store clerk, are forced to team up, and get on each others nerves, when through a series of circumstances they find themselves in possession of a top-secret bio-warfare weapon. The weapon detonates with enormous force when heated to only 50 °F (10 °C).
They have to outwit a disgruntled former U.S. Army officer who had been unjustly imprisoned as a scapegoat, and his team of alienated former Army soldiers-turned-terrorists. The ex-soldiers want to use the weapon against the government for covering up its existence and making them the scapegoats years earlier for their handling of the weapon.
With time running out, and the outdoor temperature rising, Arlo and Tim must outwit their pursuers and try to find a way to dispose of the weapon before they both become dead.
