Hard Rain (film)

Hard Rain
A rain scene with a man running through shallow water, behind him follow hooded figures with torches.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMikael Salomon
Written byGraham Yost
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyPeter Menzies Jr.
Edited by
Music byChristopher Young
Production
companies
Distributed by
  • Paramount Pictures (United States)
  • Nordisk Film Biografdistribution (Denmark)[1]
  • PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Select territories)[2][3]
  • Concorde Filmverleih (Germany)[4]
  • Toho-Towa (Japan)
Release dates
  • January 16, 1998 (1998-01-16) (United States)
  • April 3, 1998 (1998-04-03) (United Kingdom)
  • April 6, 1998 (1998-04-06) (Germany)
  • May 29, 1998 (1998-05-29) (Denmark)
  • September 5, 1998 (1998-09-05) (Japan)
Running time
96 minutes[2]
Countries
LanguageEnglish
Budget$70 million[6][7]
Box office$19.9 million (US)[6]

Hard Rain is a 1998 action thriller film directed by former cinematographer-turned director Mikael Salomon, written by Graham Yost, produced by Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, and Gary Levinsohn, and starring Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, and Ed Asner. An international co-production among the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, and Japan. In a small Indiana town amidst a natural disaster, a gang attempts to pull off a heist and survive man-made treachery. It received generally negative reviews and was a box office flop.

  1. ^ "Hard Rain (1998)". Danish Film Institute. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "HARD RAIN | British Board of Film Classification". Archived from the original on April 12, 2017.
  3. ^ "Hard Rain (35mm)". Australian Classification Board. August 30, 2019. Retrieved September 24, 2021.
  4. ^ "Hard Rain". filmportal.de. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Hard Rain". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Hard Rain". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
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