UW Cinematheque - New Restorations and Special Presentations
Rollercoaster | USA | 1977 | DCP | 119 min. Director: James Goldstone
Event Details
Date
Saturday, February 7, 2026
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda.
A mad bomber (Bottoms) blackmails amusement park company executives by planting explosives on rollercoasters. Safety inspector Harry Calder (Segal) is brought in to investigate, triggering a highly combustible game of cat and mouse. Mixing Hitchcockian thrills with disaster movie tropes, Rollercoaster is kept on track with a clever, twisty script from Columbo creators, Richard Levinson & William Link.
A mad bomber (Bottoms) blackmails amusement park company executives by planting explosives on rollercoasters. Safety inspector Harry Calder (Segal) is brought in to investigate, triggering a highly combustible game of cat and mouse. Mixing Hitchcockian thrills with disaster movie tropes, Rollercoaster is kept on track with a clever, twisty script from Columbo creators, Richard Levinson & William Link.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-3627 or email ben.reiser@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Saturday, January 24, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.