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BREAKDOWN (1997) |
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MORGAN'S RATING |
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| After their new jeep conks out on a desolate stretch of Arizona highway, a well-heeled Massachusetts couple accepts the help of a kindly, honest-seeming trucker, who drives the wife to a diner while the husband stays behind with the vehicle. After saying goodbye, the husband gets two surprises: the Jeep starts, and his wife never actually arrived at the diner -- and the trucker doesn't recollect having picked her up at all. A spare-economincally-filmed suspense light on special-effects bombasticism and heavy on the old-fashioned Hitchcockian chills. Breakdown is the year's wildest ride, so hang on and be amazed by this taut, terrifying chiller. |
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| Kurt Russell (Jeff Taylor), J.T. Walsh (Red Barr / 'Warren'), Kathleen Quinlan (Amy Taylor), M.C. Gainey (Earl), Jack Noseworthy (Billy), Rex Linn (Sheriff Boyd), Ritch Brinkley (Al), Moira Harris (Arleen), Kim Robillard (Deputy Len Carver), Thomas Kopache (Calhoun), Jack McGee (Bartender), Vincent Berry (Deke), Helen Duffy (Flo), Ancel Cook (Barfly), Gene Hartline (Tow Truck Driver), Steve Waddington (Cowboy in Bank), Rick Sanders (Truck Stop Trucker). |
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IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU. |
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DIRECTOR: Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3).
WRITERS: Jonathan Mostow and Sam Montgomery
PRODUCERS: Dino De Laurentiis and Martha Schumacher.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Artist W. Robinson.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Harry Colomby and Jonathan Fernandez.
LINE PRODUCER: Jeffrey Sudzin.
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Basil Poledouris and Richard Marvin (additional music).
DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures. |
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[Reading a doughnut package,]
Amy: If you win this mail-in contest, you can choose between 90,000 dollars, or 90,000 donuts. What would you do with 90,000 donuts? |
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Red: It's got nice curly brown hair, upstairs and down. |
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CRITICAL COMMENTS |
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"Breakdown is taut, skillful and surgically effective...a fine thriller, and its ending is unworthy of it." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times |
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"Breakdown is the latest in a seemingly endless traffic jam of thrillers that opens strong but finishes abominably." -- James Berardinelli, Reel Views |
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FACTS |
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RELEASE DATE: May 2nd, 1997 (USA)
DVD RELEASE DATE: December 1st, 1998 (USA)
BOX OFFICE OPENING: $12.3 million (USA)
BOX OFFICE RESULT: $50.1 million (USA)
BUDGET: $36 million (USA)
- The road outlay in the opening credits sequence is from a map of north central New Mexico. However, the road names have been changed and the landmarks and town names have been changed or new fictitious ones added. |
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"Breakdown exploits so many traditional thriller situations that any suspense fan vet can easily devote a hand to counting off the predecessors it plunders. No problem. That still leaves five more fingers to nibble or chew on." -- Mike Clark, USA Today |
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