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6.5When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.
Cast
- Dwayne Johnson as Beck
- Seann William Scott as Travis
- Rosario Dawson as Mariana
- Christopher Walken as Hatcher
- Ewen Bremner as Declan
- Jon Gries as Harvey
Themes
- bounty hunter
- hunter
- fight
- treasure hunt
- amazon rainforest
- gold mine
- jungle
- brazil
- amused
- vibrant
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Peter Berg
- Screenplay by
- R.J. Stewart James Vanderbilt
- Story by
- R.J. Stewart
- Produced by
- Marc Abraham Bill Corless Karen Glasser Kevin Misher
- Starring
- The Rock Seann William Scott Christopher Walken Rosario Dawson Ewen Bremner
- Cinematography
- Tobias A. Schliessler
- Edited by
- Richard Pearson
- Music by
- Harry Gregson-Williams
- Production companies
- Universal Pictures Columbia Pictures Strike Entertainment WWE Films
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures, (United States, Canada and Japan) Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (International)
- Release date
- September 26, 2003 ( 2003-09-26 )
- Running time
- 104 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $85 million
- Box office
- $80.9 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The Rundown (also known as Welcome to the Jungle outside the US) is a 2003 American action comedy film directed by Peter Berg and written by James Vanderbilt and R.J. Stewart from a story by Stewart. It follows an aspiring chef working as a debt collector for a loan shark who is tasked with retrieving the loan shark's son, who went to Brazil to search for a lost artifact. The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken and Rosario Dawson.
The film was released by Universal Pictures in the United States, Canada and Japan and by Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International under the Columbia Pictures label internationally on September 26, 2003. It received positive reviews but was a box office failure, grossing $80.9 million on an $85 million budget.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Rundown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.