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Blown Away (1994)

Blown Away poster
Directed by
Stephen Hopkins
Genre
action film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 01m
Rated
R
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 629 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Boston bomb squad member chases an Irish bomber who escaped from prison and is hunting the squad members one by one.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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