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Directed by | Stuart Baird |
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Cinematography | Alex Thomson |
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Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 133 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English Arabic |
Budget | $55 million[1] |
Box office | $122.1 million[1] |
Executive Decision is a 1996 American action thriller film[2] directed by Stuart Baird (in his directorial debut) and written by Jim Thomas and John Thomas, who also produced the film with Joel Silver. It stars Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Joe Morton, David Suchet and B.D. Wong. It depicts the rescue of an airliner hijacked by terrorists, by a small team placed on the plane in mid-flight. The film was released in the United States on March 15, 1996, by Warner Bros. It grossed $122 million against a $55 million budget.