8 Million Ways to Die

8 Million Ways to Die
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHal Ashby
Written by
Based on8 Million Ways To Die
by Lawrence Block
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyStephen H. Burum
Edited by
Music byJames Newton Howard
Production
company
Distributed by
Release date
  • April 25, 1986 (1986-04-25)
Running time
115 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$18 million[1]
Box office$1,305,114[2]

8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American neo-noir action thriller film[3][4] directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, and Andy Garcia. It was Ashby's final film, and the first attempt to adapt the Matthew Scudder detective stories of Lawrence Block for the screen. The screenplay was written by Oliver Stone, an uncredited Robert Towne and David Lee Henry (R. Lance Hill using a pseudonym).

  1. ^ Harmetz, Aljean (January 23, 1987). "A Year Of Hits Makes Paramount The Top Gun In Filmdom". Chicago Tribune. N.Y. Times News Service. Archived from the original on December 22, 2014.
  2. ^ "8 Million Ways to Die". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
  3. ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth, eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press. ISBN 978-0-87951-479-2.
  4. ^ "8 Millionen Wege Zu Sterben - 8 Million Ways To Die". British Board of Film Classification.