Kart Racer

Kart Racer is a 2003 Canadian-German feature film starring Will Rothhaar, David Gallagher and Randy Quaid. In the United States, it premiered on television on ABC Family in 2005.

Kart Racer
Directed byStuart Gillard
Produced byLeif Bristow
Written byNicholas DiBella
StarringRandy Quaid
Will Rothhaar
Jennifer Wigmore
David Gallagher
Production
company
Knightscove Entertainment
Apollo Media[1]
Distributed byAlliance Atlantis
MGM/UA
Release date
  • 16 May 2003 (2003-05-16)
Running time
94 min
CountryCanada
Germany
LanguageEnglish

The film centers on a boy named Watts "Lightbulb" Davies (Will Rothhaar) who likes to race go-karts. Unable to come up with enough funds to purchase his own kart, Watts convinces his father, Vic Davies (Randy Quaid) (a former kart racer himself), to help him build a cart and teach him how to drive. As he follows his dream, he then has to race against karting champion David Gallagher and local bully Rodney Wells.

Footage of the racing simulator NASCAR Racing 2002 Season by Papyrus Design Group can be seen as they are playing it at the arcade.

Plot

Watts Davies (Will Rothhaar) is a 14-year-old kid who decides to take up go-kart racing, he finds a new pursuit and begins to reconnect with his father, Vic (Randy Quaid), whom he has been clashing with since the death of his mother. Watts has an intense rivalry with Rodney Wells (Joe Dinicol), his enemy and local bully. Rodney stops at nothing to make Watts look bad; and he and his crew are not above getting Watts arrested. A little later, after more trouble, Watts sadly watches as Rodney and his dad buys the kart that he had originally set his eyes upon.

In an effort to bond with Watts, Vic (who is a former racer himself) helps him build a kart together and begins to train him in the fine art of kart racing, in which Watts proves to be a natural. With Vic's help and training, and a newly built kart, Watts enters the race. Throughout the film as Vic teaches Watts how to compete, the young driver begins to fall for Dahlia (Amanda De Martinis), an attractive and rebellious local girl and a graffiti artist.

Accolades

The film won a Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival and was nominated for a DGC Craft Award by the Directors Guild of Canada.[2]

References
  1. "Kart Racer". Apollo Media. Retrieved 2019-05-30.
  2. "Kart Racer". Atlas International. Retrieved 2019-05-30.


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