Running Against Time

Running Against Time is a 1990 American science fiction television film directed by Bruce Seth Green, written by Stanley Shapiro and Robert Glass, and starring Robert Hays, Catherine Hicks, and Sam Wanamaker. Based on Shapiro's 1986 novel A Time to Remember, the film is about a college professor who travels back in time in an attempt to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The film was Shapiro's final work; it aired on the USA Network on November 21, 1990, four months after his death, and was dedicated to his memory.

Plot
A college professor, who has not recovered after the death of his brother in Vietnam, hears rumors about a famous professor working on a time machine. He meets him and persuades the professor to send him back in time in order to stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War, but things don't go according to plan.



Cast

 * Robert Hays as David Rhodes
 * Catherine Hicks as Laura Whittaker
 * Sam Wanamaker as Hendryk Koopman, Ph.D.
 * Wayne Tippit as FBI Agent Landry
 * James DiStefano as Lee Harvey Oswald
 * Paul Scherrer as Chris Rhodes
 * Brian Smiar as President Lyndon B. Johnson
 * Milt Tarver as FBI Agent Clemens
 * Russ Marin as Chris's Doctor
 * Julie Ariola as Mrs. Rhodes
 * Duncan Gamble as Mr. Rhodes
 * Damion Stevens as Young David
 * Michael Whaley as Security Guard

Reception
Ken Tucker, writing for Entertainment Weekly called the movie "simultaneously solemn and wacky" but "not without charm". The LA Times compared it unfavorably to the Back to the Future films.

Years later, the similarities and differences with Stephen King's novel 11/22/63 and its TV adaptation, were referenced by critics.