Gymnast Mitch Gaylord won gold, silver and bronze medals in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and then vaulted into films with AMERICAN ANTHEM, a widely panned 1986 jock drama cum music video. Undaunted, Gaylord tries again, this time with AMERICAN RICKSHAW, a laughable mystic action-thriller.
Scott Edwards (Gaylord) is a college student who ferries tourists around via rickshaw through the streets of Miami (lately a favored locale for Italian Z-moviemakers). Scott was born 6/6/66--a day of maximum power, comments an astrology-minded cop--and thus is fated to combat low-budget evil in
the personage of TV evangelist Reverend Morton (Donald Pleasence), who covets a ma...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins