Main Cast: Jay Leno, Chris Sarandon, Ernie Hudson, John Hancock
Release Year: 1990
Country: US
Run Time: 99 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
An arrogant Detroit cop (Jay Leno) must work with his efficient Japanese counterpart (Pat Morita) to corner an evil ganglord. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Soon-Teck Oh - Kitoo; Tom Noonan - Scully; Randall "Tex" Cobb - Kosnic; Gregory Chase - Medical Examiner, Junkyard; Richard Gant - Jarryd Guard #2; Kevin Hagen; Dennis Holahan - Derek Jerryd; Danny Kamekona - Oshima; Damien Leake - Tenement Man; Angela Leslie - Girl at Photo Store; Noriyuki "Pat" Morita - Fujitsuka Natsuo; Mike Starr - Auto Worker Bowling Alley #3; Ron Taylor - Auto Worker Bowling Alley #2; Bruce Kirkpatrick - Cop #1, Drag Race; Jack Poggi - Mac; Frank Patton - Jarryd Guard #1; Bill Saito - Japanese Executive; Chuck Cooper - Drag Race Passenger; Greg Wayne Elam - Drag Race Driver; Al Waxman - Dingman
Credit
William Joseph Durrell, Jr. - Art Director, Robert Resnikoff - Co-producer, Ron Talsky - Costume Designer, Alex Gibney - Director, Lewis Teague - Director, Stan Cole - Editor, Jerry Greenberg - Editor, Rene Dupont - Executive Producer, Ira Newborn - Composer (Music Score), Sheri Short - Makeup, Michael Stein - Makeup, Rob Hahn - Camera Operator, Harry Pottle - Production Designer, Timothy Galfas - Cinematographer, Donald Thorin - Cinematographer, Marilyn Stonehouse - Production Manager, Robert W. Cort - Producer, Rene Dupont - Producer, Ted Field - Producer, Howard W. Koch - Producer, Garry Lewis - Set Designer, Robert Resnikoff - Screenwriter
Collision Course is a 1989actioncomedy film starring Jay Leno as a Detroit police officer and Pat Morita as a Japanese cop forced to work together to recover a Japaneseturbocharger stolen by villainous Chris Sarandon. It was directed by Lewis Teague and unreleased in the U.S. until 1992, when it debuted on home video. (When Morita guest-starred on The Tonight Show in 1989, with Leno serving as guest host, they recalled that the movie had run out of money on the last day of filming, with key scenes yet to be shot and no budget left for editing and post-production.)
The story plays upon the culture clash between Detroit - whose economy is largely built on the automobile - and Japan - whose export of cars was blamed for Detroit job losses.
Trivia
When Steve Martin appeared on Leno's The Tonight Show in December 2005, a clip from the movie appeared during Martin's game of "Name That Clip" (Leno was supposed to differentiate clips from Martin's two new movies Shopgirl and Cheaper by the Dozen 2, with Martin taking twenty dollars from Leno if he got one wrong.) The last clip played was from Collision Course, which Leno immediately said was "a horrible movie." Martin said Leno was right, but he would still lose twenty dollars for making it.
A rare and obscure pistol known as the "Gyrojet" was featured prominently in the film. It was used because it was "very hard to trace" according to the dialogue.
