| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | Breakdown (1997) |
| Director | Jonathan Mostow |
| Writer | Jonathan Mostow, Sam Montgomery |
| Lead Actor | Kurt Russell |
| Cast | Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, M.C. Gainey, Jack Noseworthy |
| Genre | Thriller, Mystery, Crime |
| Release Date | May 2, 1997 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 33m |
| Budget | $36 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDb Rating | 7.0/10 |
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What breaks down here is a car, not a person. Kurt Russell and Kathleen Quinlan are a nice married couple from Boston who get mired in the classic nightmare Hitchcock plot. In a strange place (here, the southwestern desert wilderness), Kurt loses Kathleen: Nobody remembers seeing her and nobody cares or wants to help.
The sheriff investigates but finds nothing: Kurt and you wonder if the sheriff is in on the plot, and the intended paranoia has bitten you. The husband gets caught by the kidnappers and is forced to get ransom money (great sequence).
writer-director Jonathan Mostow has a few quality tricks to show, ranging from astonishing fights, shootouts, chases and crashes to casting J. T. Walsh as a credible crook who actually has a wife and son. He also has a huge semi trailer truck that serves as the symbolic villain in this classic good vs evil thriller.
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