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Cliffhanger
Sign in to save1993 film directed by Renny Harlin
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6.5A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
Cast
- Sylvester Stallone as Gabe Walker
- John Lithgow as Qualen
- Michael Rooker as Hal Tucker
- Janine Turner as Jessie Deighan
- Rex Linn as Travers
- Caroline Goodall as Kristel
Themes
- airplane
- mountain
- rocky mountains
- hijacking
- suitcase
- climbing
- heist
- money
- snow
- mountain climbing
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Ratings
IMDb
6.5/10
146,934 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
67%
Metacritic
59/100
- Year
- 1993
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 3 Oscars. 1 win & 12 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Renny Harlin
- Screenplay by
- Michael France Sylvester Stallone
- Story by
- Michael France
- Based on
- A premise, by John Long
- Produced by
- Alan Marshall Renny Harlin Mario Kassar
- Starring
- Sylvester Stallone John Lithgow Michael Rooker Janine Turner Leon Robinson Paul Winfield Ralph Waite
- Cinematography
- Alex Thomson
- Edited by
- Frank J. Urioste
- Music by
- Trevor Jones
- Production companies
- Carolco Pictures Le Studio Canal+ Pioneer Corporation RCS Video
- Distributed by
- TriStar Pictures
- Release dates
- May 20, 1993 ( 1993-05-20 ) ( Cannes ) May 28, 1993 ( 1993-05-28 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 113 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $70 million
- Box office
- $255 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 113
- FilmAffinity ID
- 221056
Show 5 more facts
- publication date
- 1993-07-29
- title
- Cliffhanger
- box office
- 255000211
- capital cost
- 70000000
- review score
- 59/100
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Article
Cliffhanger is a 1993 American action thriller film starring Sylvester Stallone as a mountain climber who becomes embroiled in the heist of a U.S. Treasury plane flying through the Rocky Mountains. It is directed by Renny Harlin and written by Stallone and Michael France. It also stars John Lithgow, Michael Rooker and Janine Turner. It was the last film to use the 1984–1993 TriStar Pictures logo. It is the first installment in the Cliffhanger film series.
The film premiered at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 1993, and was released in the United States on May 28, 1993, by TriStar Pictures. It received mixed to positive reviews and earned $255 million worldwide against a $70 million budget, becoming the 7th-highest-grossing film of 1993.