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Collateral Damage
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
2002 · Directed by Andrew Davis · 108 min · Action · Thriller · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 10 frames
Tagline
Nothing is more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose.
Plot
A bomb detonates in the plaza of the Colombian Consulate building in Los Angeles, killing nine people, including Colombian officials in a caravan, and American intelligence agents. Among the civilians killed are the wife and son of an LAFD firefighter, Captain Gordy Brewer, who is injured in the aftermath. A video is sent to the U.S. State Department, in which the masked El Lobo ("The Wolf") claims responsibility, justifying it as retaliation for the US oppression of Colombia. The FBI believes El Lobo is a Colombian terrorist named Claudio Perrini.
CIA Officer Peter Brandt, the Colombia Station Chief, is harshly reprimanded for the incident by a Senate Oversight Committee, which promptly terminates all CIA operations there. Brandt angrily returns to Mompós and meets with his paramilitary allies to plan a major offensive to take down Claudio.
Frustrated with the political red tape regarding the investigation, Brewer travels to Mompós to personally hunt down Claudio, but is quickly arrested for illegal entry. The guerrillas stage a prison uprising to free their comrades and abduct Brewer, demanding a large ransom for him. Brandt's unit is alerted to Brewer's presence in Colombia but arrive too late. Brewer breaks out of the prison, evades capture, and secures a guerrilla zone pass from Canadian mechanic Sean Armstrong. Armstrong introduces him to drug runner Felix Ramirez, the manager of the cocaine distribution facility financing the guerrillas.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Ronald Roose, Peter Griffiths, David Griffiths
- Cinematography: Adam Greenberg
- Edited by: Dennis Virkler, Dov Hoenig
- Music: Graeme Revell
- Production design: Philip Rosenberg
- Produced by: Steven Reuther, David Foster
Cast
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as Gordy Brewer
- Francesca Neri as Selena Perrini
- Elias Koteas as Peter Brandt
- Cliff Curtis as Claudio Perrini
- John Leguizamo as Felix Ramirez
- John Turturro as Sean Amstrong
- Jsu Garcia as Roman
- Tyler Posey as Mauro
- Michael Milhoan as Jack
- Rick Worthy as Ronnie
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Spanish
- Studios: David Foster Productions, Hacienda Productions, Bel Air Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $85,000,000
- Box office: $78,382,433
- Themes: police, fbi, rescue mission, revenge, murder, terrorism, one man army, explosion, car explosion, firefighter
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