Terminal Velocity (film)
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| Directed by | Deran Sarafian |
| Produced by | David Twohy Ted Field Robert W. Cort |
| Written by | David Twohy |
| Starring | Charlie Sheen Nastassja Kinski James Gandolfini Christopher McDonald |
| Distributed by | Hollywood Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 23, 1994 |
| Running time | 102 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50,000,000 US (est.) |
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Terminal Velocity is a 1994 action movie starring Charlie Sheen as a daredevil skydiver who becomes mixed up with Russian spies. It was written by David Twohy and directed by Deran Sarafian.
[edit] Synopsis
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
A 747 lands in the middle of a desert. A young Russian woman is murdered in her apartment. Skydiving instructor Richard 'Ditch' Brodie (Charlie Sheen) takes on a new client, Chris Morrow (Nastassja Kinski), who on her first jump doesn't open her parachute and dies.
Except Ditch discovers she faked her death and that she is really a Russian spy trying to recover a shipment of gold. Ditch must use all his skydiving skills to outwit the villains and stay alive.
Spoilers end here.
[edit] Cast
- Charlie Sheen- Richard "Ditch" Brodie
- Nastassja Kinski- Chris Morrow
- James Gandolfini- Ben Pinkwater
- Christopher McDonald- Kerr
- Melvin Van Peebles- Noble
[edit] Trivia
- Originally written for Tom Cruise, the spec script sold for $500,000.
- William Baldwin was briefly considered for the lead.
- The final stunt - with Sheen at the wheel of a sports car falling to earth - was a mixture of bluescreen and clever camera work as a real car was suspended beneath a helicopter and then a reverse zoom made it seem as if it was falling free.
