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Kick-Ass
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Kick-Ass is a 2010 action, comedy, and superhero film directed by Matthew Vaughn. The screenplay was written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman, who also served as producers alongside Brad Pitt. The cast includes Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Nicolas Cage, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The film was produced by Plan B Entertainment and Marv Studios, with Ben Davis as director of photography. It was filmed in Toronto and at Pinewood Studios, and its narrative is set in New York City.
The movie has a runtime of 117 minutes and is rated R. It received an IMDb rating of 7.6 based on 621,438 votes, a Metascore of 66, and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 78%. The film earned 19 wins and 63 nominations. Its soundtrack, titled Kick-Ass: Music from the Motion Picture, features music by John Murphy, Henry Jackman, Ilan Eshkeri, and Marius de Vries. The film was followed by Kick-Ass 2.
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7.1Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Cast
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Dave Lizewski / Kick-Ass
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy Macready / Hit Girl
- Nicolas Cage as Damon Macready / Big Daddy
- Lyndsy Fonseca as Katie Deauxma
- Mark Strong as Frank D'Amico
- Deborah Twiss as Mrs. Zane
Themes
- hero
- secret identity
- crime fighter
- superhero
- dark comedy
- comic book
- based on comic
- murder
- mafia
- family
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Ratings
IMDb
7.6/10
620,211 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
78%
Metacritic
66/100
- Year
- 2010
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 19 wins & 63 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Matthew Vaughn
- Screenplay by
- Jane Goldman Matthew Vaughn
- Based on
- Kick-Ass , by Mark Millar John Romita Jr.
- Produced by
- Matthew Vaughn Brad Pitt Kris Thykier Adam Bohling Tarquin Pack David Reid
- Starring
- Aaron Johnson Christopher Mintz-Plasse Chloë Grace Moretz Mark Strong Nicolas Cage
- Cinematography
- Ben Davis
- Edited by
- Pietro Scalia Jon Harris Eddie Hamilton
- Music by
- John Murphy Henry Jackman Marius de Vries Ilan Eshkeri
- Production companies
- Marv Films Plan B Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Lionsgate (United States) Focus Features International (Uncredited; select territories; through Universal Pictures )
- Release dates
- 12 March 2010 ( 2010-03-12 ) ( SXSW ) 26 March 2010 ( 2010-03-26 ) (United Kingdom) 16 April 2010 ( 2010-04-16 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 118 minutes
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $28–30 million
- Box office
- $96.2 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Kick-Ass is a 2010 superhero black comedy film directed by Matthew Vaughn from a screenplay by Jane Goldman and Vaughn. It is based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., and is the first film in the Kick-Ass franchise.
It tells the story of an ordinary teenager, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), who sets out to become a real-life superhero, calling himself "Kick-Ass". Dave gets caught up in a bigger fight when he meets Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage), a former cop who, in his quest to bring down the crime boss Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) and his son Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), has trained his eleven-year-old daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz) to be the ruthless vigilante Hit-Girl.
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