Thrill Seekers story
Thrill Seekers (also known as The Time Shifters) is a 1999 science fiction television film. In the film a TV news reporter discovers that people are traveling back in time to watch disasters as a form of entertainment.
25 total · 1 choice · 7 major · 17 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| time traveler meddling in history | choice | The premise of the film is that people are traveling back in time to watch deadly disasters for entertainment, but in so doing the future ends up getting altered in various ways. |
| facing organized pursuit | major | Tom was on the run from the FBI throughout the better part of the film. |
| father and son | major | Tom worked to save his young son Kevin, who was living with Tom's ex-wife, from dying in a stadium fire. |
| journalism | major | The TV news reported Tom Merrick uncovered incontrovertible evidence that people from the future were traveling back in time to spectate deadly disasters for entertainment. |
| law enforcement | major | The FBI agents Baker and Stanton were after Tom, who'd escaped from custody after being taken in for hijacking a passenger plane. |
| romantic love | major | The story built up to Tom and Elizabeth falling in love, and they shared a passionate kiss at the story's conclusion. |
| the thrill of danger | major | The titular "thrill seekers" were people traveling back in time not only to watch people die horribly in disasters for kicks, but also for the sheer excitement that came with the possibility of not making it back. |
| violence in the media | major | A point was hammered home about the seemingly deranged practice of traveling back in time to watch people die horribly in historical disasters was not so different from "tuning into the six o'clock news". |
| aircraft hijacking | minor | Tom hijacked the passenger plan he was on to stop it from colliding with another plane in mid-air. |
| coping with the death of a child | minor | Tom broke down and wept upon seeing the dead body of his young son, Kevin. |