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The Jackal
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
1997 · Directed by Michael Caton-Jones · 124 min · Action · Crime · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
How do you stop an assassin who has no identity?
Crew
- Screenplay: Chuck Pfarrer
- Cinematography: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
- Edited by: Jim Clark
- Music: Carter Burwell
- Production design: Michael White
- Produced by: Sean Daniel, James Jacks, Michael Caton-Jones, Kevin Jarre
Cast
- Bruce Willis as The Jackal
- Richard Gere as Declan Mulqueen
- Sidney Poitier as Carter Preston
- Diane Venora as Major Valentina Koslova
- J.K. Simmons as FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon
- Mathilda May as Isabella Zanconia
- John Cunningham as FBI Director Donald Brown
- Jack Black as Ian Lamont
- Stephen Spinella as Douglas
- Tess Harper as The First Lady
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Russian
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Mutual Film Company, Alphaville Films
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $159,300,000
- Themes: showdown, hitman, politics, bratva (russian mafia), cold war, fbi, montreal, canada, revenge, terrorism, ira (irish republican army)
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