Cutthroat Island
Cutthroat Island is a 1995 adventure swashbuckler film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Robert King and Marc Norman from a story by Michael Frost Beckner, James Gorman, Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon. It stars Geena Davis, Matthew Modine and Frank Langella. It is a co-production among the United States, France, Germany and Italy.
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| Directed by | Renny Harlin |
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| Cinematography | Peter Levy |
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| Music by | John Debney |
Production companies | Carolco Pictures Cutthroat Productions |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (United States) |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $92-98 million |
| Box office | $10 million |
The film had a notoriously troubled and chaotic production involving multiple rewrites and recasts. Critical reactions, where the script was the focus of criticism, were mixed-to-negative reviews, and was one of the biggest box office bombs in history, with losses of $147 million when adjusted for inflation. It is listed in the Guinness World Records as the biggest box-office bomb of all time, and significantly reduced the bankability and Hollywood production of pirate-themed films until 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Its failure caused the closing of Carolco Pictures.