Buying Time (1989)
When you're caught between the law and the underworld... you need more than time on your side.
Petty thieves Jabber and Reno are blackmailed by the police to uncover the identity of a mobster who is killing the city's drug dealers. While reluctant, they're convinced by the offer to expunge their own crimes. They go undercover and track a suspect named Curtis King. Soon they find evidence of Curtis's crimes, but amplify the danger in which they find themselves.
- Date of release
- 1989-04-01
- TMDB
- 4.4 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime
- Director
- Mitchell Gabourie
Casting
- Jeff Schultz — Jabber
- Page Fletcher — Curtis
- Dean Stockwell — Detective Novak
- Laura Cruikshank — Jessica
- Thick Wilson — Supervisor
- Leslie Toth — Reno
- Eric Keenleyside — Bartender
- Michael Rudder — Cody
Interesting facts
Buying Time is a 1988 Canadian action film directed by Mitchell Gabourie and written by Mitchell Gabourie, Richard Gabourie, Gordon McDonald and Dean Gabourie. The film stars Jeff Schultz, Laura Cruickshank, Page Fletcher, Leslie Toth and Dean Stockwell. The film was released on May 12, 1989, by United Artists.
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