Blown Away (1994 film)
Blown Away is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Forest Whitaker, Suzy Amis, and Lloyd Bridges, and follows a Boston bomb squad member pursuing an Irish bomber, who recently escaped from prison and is targeting the other bomb squad members. The film was distributed and financed by MGM, a studio which was in financial difficulty at the time. The head of the studio was former Paramount executive Frank Mancuso Sr.
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| Directed by | Stephen Hopkins |
| Written by | John Rice Joe Batteer M. Jay Roach |
| Story by | John Rice Joe Batteer |
| Produced by | Pen Densham Richard Barton Lewis John Watson |
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| Cinematography | Peter Levy |
| Edited by | Tim Wellburn |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
Production companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Trilogy Entertainment Group |
| Distributed by | MGM/UA Distribution Co. |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $28 million |
| Box office | $53 million |
It was the first action film starring Jeff Bridges, who was by then a 45-year old leading man. Bridges said he was always interested in the genre, particularly as his father, Lloyd Bridges (who co-stars in the film) appeared in High Noon fighting Gary Cooper. Hopkins said that Bridges was his first choice to play the lead. "I was very lucky that MGM backed me up, because he doesn't seem to be the obvious choice for this kind of genre film."