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Hard Target

Year:

1993

Duration:

97 min | Germany:73 min (cut version) | 116 min (Director's Cut) | 128 min (Workprint Version)

Genres:

Action | Thriller

IMDB rate:

Director:

John Woo

Awards:

1 win & 5 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1993-08-20

Filming Locations: White Castle, Louisiana, USA

Earnings

Budget: $18,000,000

Opening Weekend: $10,106,500 (USA) (20 August 1993)

Gross: $32,534,954 (USA)$2,031,970 (UK)

Cast

Actor

Character

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Hard Target

Yancy Butler

Hard Target

Chuck Pfarrer

Douglas Binder

Robert Apisa

Mr. Lopacki

Arnold Vosloo

Pik van Cleef

Lance Henriksen

Emil Fouchon

Douglas Forsythe Rye

Frick

Mike Leinert

Frack

Lenore Banks

Marie

Willie C. Carpenter

Elijah Roper

Barbara Tasker

Waitress

Kasi Lemmons

Det. Marie Mitchell

Randy Cheramie

Shop Steward

Eliott Keener

Randal Poe

Robert Pavlovich

Detective

Marco St. John

Dr. Morton

Joe Warfield

Ismal Zenan

Jeanette Kontomitras

Madam

Ted Raimi

Man on the Street

Sven-Ole Thorsen

Stephan

Tom Lupo

Jerome

Jules Sylvester

Peterson

David Efron

Billy Bob

Wilford Brimley

Uncle Douvee

Codie Scott

Reporter

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Trivia

After the domestic and international box office success of Hard Target, Universal Pictures, production company Alphaville (producers Jim Jacks and Sean Daniel), star Jean-Claude Van Damme and director John Woo briefly considered re-teaming for another action/thriller to be titled "Shadow of Death". However, due to the difficult relationship between Van Damme and Woo, the project never materialized.

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In John Woo's original cut, there was a love scene between Chance and Nat. As well as an extended shootout in the factory towards the end of the film.

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The character Van Cleef is named after actor Lee Van Cleef. He played a sadistic antagonist in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).

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Goofs

When Fouchon's team assaulted Douvee's house, guy with hat had FN FAL in his hands. After assault he was holding grenade launcher.

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Ring on Fouchon's left hand changes positions through whole movie, from ring finger to little finger and back.

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When detective Marie Mitchell dies, Chance knocks a second biker down who falls behind a police car. When Chance and Natasha run away he is lying next to the police car.

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Quotes

Emil Fouchon: [his last line] Whoops!

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Emil Fouchon: You see, Miss Binder, you I can understand. It was a matter of family.

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Emil Fouchon: Load me!

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Faq

How many different versions of "Hard Target" are there?

Worldwide plenty different versions of "Hard Target" are known. Until now in the USA only the r-rated version has been released. In order to achieve an r-rating this version had to be cut in many scenes. A so called unrated-version has been released in Europe (e.g. Germany or in the UK). This Version offers a lot of the scenes which were cut from the r-rated version. However, this version is still not complete. For example the famous ear-cut-sequence is still missing as well as some plot scenes. A detailed comparison between the r-rated and unrated version can be found hereAlso known are two unofficial cuts of the movie: The workprint version and the sneakpreview version. Being a typical workprint-version the existing copies of this version have bad quality, a counter and the movie-cut is not finished. Nevertheless this version includes a lot of unknown plot scenes and some scenes of violence which are also missing in the unrated-version (it also includes the ear-scene).The sneakpreview version is shorter than the workprint version but it provides a little bit better quality and this cut of the movie is already finished (no freezeframes or lack of sound as in the workprint). It also includes most of the violent scenes missing in the unrated version (ear-scene). A detailed comparison between the unrated-version and sneakpreview can be found here.Last but not least there's a Workprint around that is even longer than the Sneak Preview Version. Again a detailed comparison between both cuts with pictures can be found here.

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