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Behind Enemy Lines
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer, Admiral Reigart, decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.
2001 · Directed by John Moore · 106 min · Action · Drama · Thriller · War · 17 frames
Tagline
His only weapon is his will to survive.
Crew
- Screenplay: David Veloz, Zak Penn
- Cinematography: Brendan Galvin
- Edited by: Paul Martin Smith
- Music: Don Davis
- Production design: Nathan Crowley
- Produced by: John Davis
Cast
- Owen Wilson as Lt. Chris 'Longhorn' Burnett
- Gene Hackman as Admiral Leslie Reigart, Commander Adriatic Battle Group
- Gabriel Macht as Lt. Jeremy 'Smoke' Stackhouse
- Olek Krupa as General Miroslav Lokar
- Vladimir Mashkov as Tracker (Sasha)
- Marko Igonda as Bazda
- David Keith as Master Chief Tom O'Malley
- Charles Malik Whitfield as Capt. Glen Rodway, USMC
- Eyal Podell as Petty Officer Kennedy
- Joaquim de Almeida as Admiral Juan-Miguel Piquet, Commander of NATO Naval Command
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Czech, English, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian
- Studios: Davis Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Box office: $91,753,202
- Themes: sniper, war crimes, bosnia and herzegovina, rescue mission, marine corps, u.s. navy, based on true story, north atlantic treaty organization (nato), naval officer, bosnian war (1992-95)
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