Tail Lights Fade (1999)

Director
Malcolm Ingram

Main cast
Jaimz Woolvett; Breckin Meyer; Jake Busey; Elizabeth Berkley; Tanya Allen

Genres
Comedy, Action, Drama

Description
A young woman (Tanya Allen) relay races across Canada with her boyfriend (Breckin Meyer) and another couple (Jake Busey and Denise Richards) to bail her brother out of a marijuana charge.


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