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Directed by | Marco Brambilla |
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Cinematography | Alex Thomson |
Edited by | Stuart Baird |
Music by | Elliot Goldenthal |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 115 minutes[3] |
Country | United States |
Budget | $45–77 million[4] |
Box office | $159.1 million[5] |
Demolition Man is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla in his directorial debut. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, and Nigel Hawthorne. Stallone plays John Spartan, a risk-taking police officer who has a reputation for causing destruction while carrying out his work. After a failed attempt to rescue hostages from evil crime lord Simon Phoenix (Snipes), they are both sentenced to be cryogenically frozen in 1996. Phoenix is thawed for a parole hearing in 2032, but escapes. Society has changed and all violent crime has seemingly been eliminated. Unable to deal with a criminal as dangerous as Phoenix, the authorities awaken Spartan to help capture him again. The story makes allusions to many other works including Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World[6] and H. G. Wells's The Sleeper Awakes.[7]
The film was released in the United States on October 8, 1993, to mixed reviews from critics. It earned $159.1 million worldwide, and was considered a successful film for Stallone.
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