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Bird on a Wire
An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.
1990 · Directed by John Badham · 110 min · Comedy · Romance · Adventure · 11 frames
Tagline
He’s every woman’s dream and one woman’s nightmare.
Crew
- Screenplay: David Seltzer, Louis Venosta, Eric Lerner
- Cinematography: Robert Primes
- Edited by: Dallas Puett, Frank Morriss
- Music: Hans Zimmer
- Production design: Philip Harrison
- Produced by: Rob Cohen
Cast
- Mel Gibson as Richard 'Rick' Jarmin
- Goldie Hawn as Marianne Graves
- David Carradine as Eugene Sorensen
- Bill Duke as Albert Diggs
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Joe Weyburn
- Joan Severance as Rachel Varney
- Harry Caesar as Marvin Larson
- Jeff Corey as Lou Baird
- Alex Bruhanski as Raun
- John Pyper-Ferguson as Jamie
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Interscope Communications, The Badham-Cohen Group
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Box office: $138,697,012
- Themes: martial arts, helicopter, poison, veterinarian, drug addiction, zoo, witness protection, ladies' man, alzheimer's disease, motorcycle
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