Timequest (film)
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| Directed by | Robert Dyke |
| Produced by | Gary Bloom Charles F. Cirgenski Ron Cook James A. Courtney Mary Petryshyn Tom Van Scyoc |
| Written by | Robert Dyke |
| Starring | Victor Slezak Caprice Benedetti Vince Grant Bruce Campbell Barry Corbin |
| Music by | Dan Kolton |
| Cinematography | Lon Stratton |
| Edited by | Joseph Kleinman |
| Distributed by | Ardustry Creative Light Worldwide |
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Release dates
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April 13, 2002 |
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Running time
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95 minutes |
| Language | English |
Timequest is a 2002 science-fiction film directed by Robert Dyke. It stars Victor Slezak as John F. Kennedy, Caprice Benedetti as Jacqueline Kennedy, Vince Grant, and popular b-movie actor Bruce Campbell. After premiering on April 13, 2002, the film had a limited theatrical release in the United States, followed shortly by distribution on VHS and DVD to the United States, Canada, and Australia.
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Plot
Timequest explores the science fiction theme of altering the present day by traveling back in time and tampering with past events. In this particular film, on the morning of November 22, 1963, a elderly man (Ralph Waite) who wears spacesuit-type clothing materializes in the hotel suite occupied by Jackie Kennedy (Caprice Benedetti). The Time Traveler shows Jackie future television footage of the assassination and funeral of John F. Kennedy (Victor Slezak). Shortly thereafter, the Time Traveler speaks to the president and to the cynical Attorney General Bobby Kennedy (Vince Grant), giving them details of their respective assassinations (as it takes the Time Traveler quite a bit to convince Robert Kennedy that he is who he says he is as Kennedy attempts to debunk the Time Traveler's story) and of the public revelations of JFK's sex scandals. The Time Traveler, knowing Bobby's ways, won't state his name or his birthplace, but does mention that he was born on this day. The Time Traveler asks Jackie to dance with him; she does (the Time Traveler is obsessed with Jackie Kennedy).
The Time Traveler and the three Kennedys drink a toast in the hotel suite just before 12:30 pm, which is the time that history is definitely changed (JFK is shot-JFK is not shot). At 12:30 the Time Traveler turns into nothingness, and the lead-crystal glass that he was holding drops to the floor and shatters. Bobby finds a piece of glass with the Time Traveler's fingerprint on it. Lee Harvey Oswald (Jeffery Steiger) is captured, and Jack Ruby is killed before he can shoot Oswald. Oswald is taken to Washington, D.C. and interrogated by the Warren Commission; as a result, the CIA is disbanded.
Meanwhile, Bobby Kennedy is determined to uncover the Time Traveler's identity in order to prevent him from eventually inventing time travel, but Jackie exacts an iron promise from Bobby that the Time Traveler would never be harmed. As it turns out, the Time Traveler is Raymond Mead (Joseph Murphy) (who is, like his alternate self, obsessed with Jackie Kennedy). At sixteen he commits a burglary, is arrested and put on a prison bus; his fingerprinting enables President Bobby Kennedy to know the Time Traveler's name. President Bobby has the teenager pulled off the bus, he talks to the kid, and he gives Mead a full pardon.
Years later, when Mead has become an artist, an elderly Jackie buys many of his paintings. In 2001, after JFK dies of old age (and Jackie is already dead), youngest son James Robert Kennedy (Rick Gianasi) explains to Mead why the Kennedy family has been so generous to him.
Characters
| Actor/Actress | Character Name | History | Death | ||
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| Victor Slezak | John F. Kennedy | The 35th President of the United States. | Died in 2001 | ||
| Caprice Benedetti | Jacqueline Kennedy | The wife of John F. Kennedy. | Died in 1994 | ||
| Vince Grant | Robert F. Kennedy | The Attorney General and 37th President of the United States. | Still alive | ||
| Bruce Campbell | William Roberts | ||||
| Barry Corbin | Lyndon Johnson | The 35th Vice President. | |||
| Larry Drake | J. Edgar Hoover | The Director of the FBI. | |||
| Ralph Waite | The Time Traveler | Born November 22, 1963 | |||
| Joseph Murphy | Raymond Mead | Born November 22, 1963; became the Time Traveler. | |||
| Rick Gianasi | James Robert Kennedy | Born August 22, 1964; fourth child of John and Jackie Kennedy. | |||
| David Haig | Agent Clint Hill | Secret Service agent that kills the would-be JFK assassins. | |||
| Debra Port | Janice Kennedy | Wife of James Robert Kennedy | |||
| Reuben Yabuku | Martin Luther King, Jr. | The 37th Vice President under President Robert Kennedy | |||
| Amanda Bernacchi | Cheryl Stein | ||||
| Dawn Lafferty | Magic Bullit | ||||
| Shelly Marks | Norma Jeane | Died in 1962 | |||
| Richard Jewell | Agent Richards | ||||
| Jeffery Steiger | Lee Harvey Oswald | The man who is framed for the attempted assassination of John F. Kennedy. | Still alive | ||
| Marty Bufalini | Walter Cronkite | Died in 2009 |
