Shifting Gears

Shifting Gears

We Bought A Zoo meets Days of Thunder on a dirt track!

NR 2018 · 102 min · ★ 6.5 · Action, Comedy, Family

Tom, an over-worked husband and father, abandons his dead-end job to follow his dream of owning his own business. The only problem: he invested everything in a mechanic shop that has a lien in favor of his arch enemy and must now enter a dirt track race to win the prize money and save his family from ruin.

Directed by Jason Winn · Written by R. Keith Harris

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C. Thomas Howell Jenkins
Brooke Langton Carol Williamson
John Ratzenberger Conrad Baines
M.C. Gainey D. H. - Dirty Harry Hawkins
M. Emmet Walsh Hank
Adam Hicks Jeremy Williamson
R. Keith Harris Tom Williamson
Cole Bernstein Charlie
Michael Abbott Jr. Carl Highburn
Robert Crayton Derwyn
Drew Matthews Clem Williamson
Tate Clemons Stephy Williamson

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