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Collision Course
	; The DVD artwork for Collision Course.
Directed by	Lewis Teague
Produced by	Robert W. Cort; Ted Field
Written by	Frank Darius Namei; Robert Resnikoff
Starring	Jay Leno; Pat Morita; Chris Sarandon
Music by	Ira Newborn
Distributed by	HBO Home Video
Release date(s)	April 1989
Running time	100 min.
Language	English

Collision Course is a 1989 action comedy film starring Jay Leno as a Detroit police officer and Pat Morita as a Japanese cop forced to work together to recover a Japanese turbocharger 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] External links

Collision Course (film) at the Internet Movie Database