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Hard to Kill
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death
1990 · Directed by Bruce Malmuth · 95 min · Action · Drama · Crime · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 4 frames
Tagline
He's L.A. Detective Mason Storm. Three hired assassins left him for dead. And he's waited seven years to even the score.
Plot
In 1983, LAPD IA detective Mason Storm investigates a mob meeting held by a pier. He records a shadowy figure who assures the mob they can rely on his political support. Unaware that he is monitored by corrupt cops, he informs his partner, Becker, and his friend, Lt. O'Malley, that he has evidence of corruption.
Mason hides the videotape in his house. When he goes upstairs, a hit squad composed of corrupt policemen, including Jack Axel and Max Quentero, breaks in, murders Mason's wife, and shoots him. Mason's young son, Sonny, escapes through a window. The corrupt policemen frame Mason, making it look like a murder-suicide. At the same time, assassins kill Mason's partner. Later at the hospital, Mason is pronounced dead but is then discovered to be alive, although in a coma. To prevent the assassins from finishing the job, Lieutenant O'Malley tells the medics to keep Mason's status a secret.
Seven years later, Mason wakes from his coma. Andy Stewart, one of his nurses, makes a phone call, which is intercepted by corrupt police officers. They send Axel to finish the job and kill the nurses to whom Mason might have talked. Mason realizes that he is still in danger, but his muscles have atrophied to the point where he can barely move. He gets to an elevator, and when Andy sees her co-workers being killed, she helps him escape.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Steven McKay
- Cinematography: Matthew F. Leonetti
- Edited by: John F. Link
- Music: David Michael Frank
- Production design: Robb Wilson King
- Produced by: Bill Todman Jr., Gary Adelson, Joel Simon
Cast
- Steven Seagal as Mason Storm
- Kelly LeBrock as Andy Stewart
- William Sadler as Senator Vernon Trent
- Frederick Coffin as Lt. Kevin O'Malley
- Bonnie Burroughs as Felicia Storm
- Andrew Bloch as Capt. Dan Hulland
- Branscombe Richmond as Max Quentero
- Charles Boswell as Jack Axel
- Zachary Rosencrantz as Sonny Storm
- Lou Beatty Jr. as Carl Becker
Production
- Country: United States of America, Spain
- Language: English
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures, Lee Rich Productions
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Box office: $47,410,000
- Themes: martial arts, coma, training, cop, revenge, vigilante, organized crime, mafia, undercover cop, hospital
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