Sudden Death [Blu-ray]

Director: Peter Hyams Peter Hyams

Overview

Pittsburgh Penguins owner Howard Baldwin was the producer of Sudden Death, and the action is set in his hockey arena, in which the Penguins are playing the Chicago Blackhawks. Pittsburgh fire inspector Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is attending the game with his two children. He's quit fighting fires because of a tragedy a few years earlier involving a child he couldn't save. Also at the game is the vice-president of the United States (Raymond Barry), who is the target of a terrorist plot. The terrorist leader, an insane ex-CIA agent named Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe), has masterminded a scheme to hold the vice-president hostage in his luxury suite while demanding that payments be transferred to his account electronically at the end of each period of the game. If he doesn't get his money, he will kill one member of the vice-president's party at the end of each period, and at game's end he will order ten bombs hidden in the arena to be detonated with all 17,000 fans present. McCord discovers the plot while his daughter Emily (Whittni Wright) is kidnapped by the terrorists too. McCord must dispatch the villains and find the bombs, while saving all the hostages. Luckily, he is adept at martial arts. He fights one henchman dressed in a Penguins mascot outfit in the arena's kitchen, and another terrorist on the arena's retracting dome. At one point, McCord switches identities with a player, is sent into the game, and scores a goal. Director Peter Hyams also directed Van Damme in the blockbuster Timecop. ~ Michael Betzold

Product Details

Release Date:	03/20/2020
UPC:	0191329133040
Original Release:	1995
Rating:	R
Source:	Universal
Language:	English
Time:	1:50:00
Sales rank:	15,606

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jean-Claude Van Damme	Darren McCord
Powers Boothe	Joshua Foss
Raymond J. Barry	Vice President,Actor
Whittni Wright	Emily McCord
Ross Malinger	Tyler McCord
Dorian Harewood	Hallmark
Kate McNeil	Kathi
Michael Gaston	Hickey
Audra Lindley	Mrs. Ferrara
Brian Delate	Blair
Michael R. Aubele	Ace(as Michael Aubele)
Steve Aronson	Dooley,Actor
Karen Elise Baldwin	TV Director(as Karen Baldwin)
Jennifer D. Bowser	Joan
Pat Brisson	Player #2
Glenda Morgan Brown	Mrs. Taylor,Wootton(as Jophery Brown)
William Cameron	Secret Service Agent
Bernard Canepari	Jefferson
Jay Caufield	Tolliver
Alan Clement	Mr. Wirtz,Pre-Game Announcer
Anthony Marino	Vendor
Paul Mochnik	Andrew Ferrara
Dixie Neyland Tymitz	Mrs Wirtz

Technical Credits

Peter Hyams	Director
Anders P. Jensen	Executive Producer
Ash R. Shah	Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Howard Baldwin	Producer
Moshe Diamant	Producer
Gregory L. McMurray	Special Effects
John Des Jardin	Special Effects
Garry Elmendorf	Special Effects
Les Lazarowitz	Sound/Sound Designer
Gary Bourgeois	Sound/Sound Designer
Brad Sherman	Sound/Sound Designer