Sci-Fighters

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Sci-Fighters
Directed byPeter Svatek
Written byMark Sevi
Starring Roddy Piper
Jayne Heitmeyer
Billy Drago
Tyrone Benskin
Richard Raybourne
Production
company
Shostak/Rossner Productions
Distributed by CineTel Films
Release date
  • 30 December 1996 (1996-12-30)(U.S.)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Sci-Fighters is a 1996 science fiction action film directed by Peter Svatek and starring Roddy Piper, Billy Drago and Jayne Heitmeyer.

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Plot summary

The film takes place in the city of Boston, in the year 2009. Detective Cameron Grayson (Roddy Piper) is on the trail of Adrian Dunn (Billy Drago), his ex-partner and his wife's murderer. Dunn has escaped from prison on the Moon and returned to Earth with a deadly alien virus. Grayson must hurry to stop Dunn before the virus Dunn is carrying spreads all over the planet.

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