- Actors: Jesse Bradford, French Stewart, Paula Garcés, Michael Biehn, Robin Thomas
- Directors: Jonathan Frakes
- Writers: Andy Hedden, David N. Weiss, J. David Stem, Rob Hedden
- Producers: Albie Hecht, David B. Householter, Gale Anne Hurd
- Format: NTSC
- Language: English, French
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Paramount
- Release Date: Jan 27 2004
- Run Time: 93 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000068QMD
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #26,540 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Who hasn't fantasized about being able to stop time and move things around? A watch with this power drops into the hands of Zak (Jesse Bradford), a teenager who yearns for speed. He uses it to impress Francesca (Paula Garces), the beautiful girl he's got a crush on, but soon they both find themselves running from a government agency led by a ruthless executive (Michael Biehn from The Terminator) who wants the watch at all costs. Clockstoppers suffers from a lack of any internal logic, but the basic idea fuels a reasonably swift story and some decent special effects. The soundtrack is unusually strong, with pop offerings from Blink 182, Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth, and others. Also featuring French Stewart (Love Stinks) as a hapless scientist and Julia Sweeney (It's Pat, God Said "Ha!") as Zak's mother. --Bret Fetzer
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great service; great product,
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This review is from: Clockstoppers (Widescreen) (DVD)
The service was prompt...I received the DVD in just a few days! The DVD was like new...no scratches or damage. I am VERY satisfied with my purchase.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fair afternoon special,
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This review is from: Clockstoppers (Widescreen) (DVD)
The concept is not original. You have seen this before many times from Twilight Zones to "The Girl, The Gold Watch & Everything" (1980). Some do it well as in "Timestalkers" (1987) and then there is this movie.Standard premise, misunderstood youth know better than parents. Yep and of course has to save sire from the evil bad guy that has gone amuck. Zack has Henry's (Michael Biehm) molecular watch and he wants it back. On the side father of Zack can be useful in completing project. So will Zack save his dad or will Francesca runoff to Tahiti with the bad guy? One plus is the presents of French Stewart; I guess they needed one actor in the movie. And for distraction purposes Paula Garc's.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lame SF Comedy,
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This review is from: Clockstoppers (VHS Tape)
CLOCKSTOPPERS takes the premise of a watch that can stop time (from THE TWILIGHT ZONE) and combines it with the cutesy technogeek high school boy and girl (from WARGAMES) but manages to lose the quaint humor of the former and the credible interaction of the latter. Director Jonathan Frakes tries to infuse a lame script with catchy tunes, funky hip hop DJs, and some eye catching special effects in a tale that combines the usual government shadow agency bad guy (Michael Biehn) with the exciting premise that science can now halt the external passing of time while allowing a special watch-carrying agent to act normally within this hypertime. Jesse Bradford and Paula Garces are the two high schoolers (who by the way look far too old--Garces was 28 when she made this) who meet, fumble in their initial introduction, and go off on what is the same buddy relation that Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy did so much better in WARGAMES. French Stewart lamely plays the same role of the thwarted scientist that Christopher Lloyd had in BACK TO THE FUTURE. Films that borrow so liberally from other similar and more successful ones are usually noted only for a massive level of scriptual incompetancy. If the U. S. government really had such a hypertime device, I doubt if it would try to close down the very group that had it. Further, to cast the leader of the renegade scientists as a megalomaniacal thug is simply to plug into the Lame Scriptwriter's Textbook. CLOCKSTOPPERS is not a funny movie, nor is it a thrilling one. At best, one can ooh and aah only at the very occasional moments of dazzling lights. Prediction: This one will only be a footnote on the resumes of all concerned.
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