Breakdown | |
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Directed by | Jonathan Mostow |
Screenplay by | Jonathan Mostow Sam Montgomery |
Story by | Jonathan Mostow |
Produced by | Dino De Laurentiis Martha De Laurentiis |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Douglas Milsome |
Edited by | Derek Brechin Kevin Stitt |
Music by | Basil Poledouris |
Production companies | Dino De Laurentiis Company Spelling Films |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $36 million[1] |
Box office | $50.2 million[1] |
Breakdown is a 1997 American action thriller film directed and co-written by Jonathan Mostow. It stars Kurt Russell, J. T. Walsh and Kathleen Quinlan.[2] The original music score was composed by Basil Poledouris. The film was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Martha De Laurentiis. In the film, A man and his wife are driving cross-country from Massachusetts state to San Diego city when their new car mysteriously breaks down. A truck driver stops and assists them by taking his wife to the nearest diner to phone for help but in reality is kidnapping her, causing her husband to track down his wife and the kidnapper himself.
The film was released on May 2, 1997 by Paramount Pictures. It is one of the final films featuring Walsh to be released in his lifetime. The film received positive reviews and gained a strong cult following.[3][4][5]