Big Game (2014 film)

Big Game
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJalmari Helander
Written by
  • Jalmari Helander
  • Petri Jokiranta
Produced by
  • Petri Jokiranta
  • Will Clarke
  • Andy Mayson
  • Jens Meurer
Starring
CinematographyMika Orasmaa
Edited byIikka Hesse
Music by
  • Juri Seppä
  • Miska Seppä
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 5 September 2014 (2014-09-05) (TIFF)
  • 19 March 2015 (2015-03-19) (Finland)
  • 26 June 2015 (2015-06-26) (North America)
Running time
90 minutes[3]
Countries
  • Finland
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
Languages
  • English
  • Finnish
Budget8.5 million[4]
($10 million)
Box office$7.5 million[5]

Big Game is a 2014 action-adventure film directed by Jalmari Helander and written by Helander and Petri Jokiranta. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber, Mehmet Kurtulus, Ted Levine, Felicity Huffman, and Jim Broadbent. The film follows a 13-year-old boy named Oskari (Tommila) in his efforts to protect the President of the United States William Alan Moore (Jackson) from terrorists who shot down Air Force One. Big Game is one of the most expensive Finnish films ever made.

Premiering at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was generally well received, with IGN calling it "a throwback to '80s and '90s adventure movie with a dash of comic book violence thrown in for good measure."[6][7][8]

  1. ^ "Big Game (2014)". BBFC. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Film #56889: Big Game". Lumiere. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  3. ^ "BIG GAME (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
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