Moving Target

TV Movie
1988
Not Rated
1h 40m

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Jason Bateman and Chynna Phillips in Moving Target (1988)

A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.A teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.

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5.7/10

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Trivia
The mansion pulled up to for the house party would later be used in the opening sequence of the television program The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Goofs
The Kellogg family leaves their new house to pick up Toby. This meetup does not occur because Toby's marshal is murdered. Yet when the family returns to the house, in the car they are all smiles with their federal handler as if nothing in the world is wrong.

Quotes
Toby Kellogg: They don't care about me... and I don't care about them
Toby Kellogg: [Addressing his now abandoned home] Well goodnight

Connections
Featured in Jimmy Kimmel Live!: Jimmy Kimmel's Quarantine Monologue/Jason Bateman (2020)

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Featured review

8/10

Very good for a TV movie

It's not a feature film, it's a solid TV so see it that way.

And it's pretty good. Bateman was great, it seemed pretty real.

Very not perfect- no way the Feds would have one agent with this kid to not have attention- that's silly.

Really, it does fall apart in the third act, like so many movies.

But in this case, as a TV movie it works, especially when the lead calls the Feds for help. It does feel like infuriating red tape in a crazy urgent situation.

What this movie does well, it does REALLY well.

The third act thing where the Big Bad does moronic things- yes, that's here in glorious 80's stupid, but hey, it's an 80's flick, ;).