The Peacemaker

Year:

1997

Duration:

124 min

Genres:

Action | Thriller

IMDB rate:

5.9

Director:

Mimi Leder

Awards:

2 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1997-09-26

Filming Locations: Cremosne, Slovakia

Earnings

Budget: $50,000,000

Opening Weekend: $12,311,939 (USA) (28 September 1997)

Gross: $41,256,277 (USA) (21 December 1997)

Cast

Actor

Character

George Clooney

The Peacemaker

Ronnie Marmo

Hannah Leder

Nicole Kidman

Dr. Julia Kelly

Marcel Iures

Dusan Gavrich

Aleksandr Baluev

General Aleksandr Kodoroff

Rene Medvesek

Vlado Mirich

Gary Werntz

Terry Hamilton

Randall Batinkoff

Ken

Jim Haynie

General Garnett

Alexander Strobele

Dietrich Schuhmacher

Holt McCallany

Mark Appleton

Michael Boatman

CPN Beach

Joan Copeland

Senator Helen Bevens

Carlos Gómez

Santiago

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Dimitri Vertikoff

Slavko Juraga

Stevo

Aleksandr Peskov

Vassily (as Alexander Peskov)

Dejan Acimovic

Kodoroff's Driver

Harsh Nayyar

Dr. Taraki

Matt Adler

Alan

Tamara Tunie

Jody

Aleksandr Yatsko

Russian Corporal (as Alexander Yatsko)

Bruce MacVittie

DOE Helo Tech

Lubomír Paulovic

Pockman

Charles Dumas

Special Agent David Branigan

Ramsey Faragallah

New York Cabbie

Murphy Guyer

INS Agent

Leslie Dilley

New York Priest

David S. Lomax

FBI Agent #2

Adina Porter

Female NYPD Cop

Hubert Kramar

Kordech Guard

Alma Cuervo

UN Representative

Sebastian Roché

Hans, German Backpacker

Blaise Corrigan

FBI Agent #1

Gordon Catlin

Gunner

John Ottavio

FBI Agent #3

Goran Visnjic

Bazta Sergeant

Jay Acovone

Cop

James Colby

Limo Driver

Jean Rogers

Sarajevo CNN Representative

Matt Winston

UN Official

Terry Serpico

Sniper #1

Thom Mathews

Major Rich Numbers

Jerry Dixon

Sniper #2

David Lagle

Pilot #3

Louis Mustillo

Costello (as Lou Mustillo)

Bozidar Smiljanic

Serb Minister

Michael Potts

DOE Haz-mat Tech #1

Richard Poe

DOE Haz-mat Tech #2

Slobodan Dimitrijevic

Serb Official

Martin Nikodym

Polish IFOR Soldier

Charles Cavalier

Angry Motorist

Jerome Jamal Hardeman

Pilot #1

Dave Simonds

Philly Agent

Irmelin Mai Hoffer

Vienna Cafe Singer

Chuck Cooper

NYPD Cop

Jono Kouzouyan

Bazta Merchant

Jared Chandler

Marine

Evert Sooster

Praporshik

Branko Lustig

Man with Poodle

Matthew Sussman

National Guard Captain

Bill Christ

DOE Agent

William Hill

Agent

Bernie McInerney

Carey

Andrea Doven

Kelly Girl

James DuMont

Young Sniper

Mark W. Johnson

CIA Agent

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Russian Controller (as Alexander Kuznetsov)

Ed Semenov

Radio Officer

Bruce Gray

CNN Newscaster

Endre Hules

Older Major

Adam Alexi-Malle

Arab Sheik in Airport (uncredited)

Steve Altes

FBI Agent (uncredited)

Eric Attio

(uncredited)

Roxana Benseman

Secretary of Commerce (uncredited)

Maria Capp

Tourist (uncredited)

Ricardo Cordero

Pilot (uncredited)

Rob Cristiano

Extra (uncredited)

Christopher Del Gaudio

FBI Agent (uncredited)

Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas

Marine (uncredited)

Clifford Minkoff

FBI Agent (uncredited)

Steve Nuke

Witness (uncredited)

Francesco Paladino

Airport Imposter (uncredited)

Todo Segalla

Army Officer (uncredited)

Ron Severdia

FBI Agent (uncredited)

Lucy Smith

U.N. Worker (uncredited)

Oriana Nicole Tavoularis

College Student (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

For the final scene at the church, the art director looked for several churches in the New York area....some accepted but when parishioners learned that the movie had to do with terrorists, they pulled out because they did not want to have that image. The final scene is actually CGI.

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Filmed on location in New York City the same time as Men in Black (1997)

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Top Serbian actors Predrag Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski and Dragan Nikolic refused the role of Serbian terrorist Dusan Gavric.

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Goofs

The damage Devoe sustained in the fight in the back of the truck disappears and reappears throughout the end of the movie. Also, at times, the damage is extremely noticeable and looks very bad, at other times it can barely be seen.

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Early in the Vienna chase scenes, Devoe's MB has the passenger's door dented. Toward the end, in the last scene before the explosion, the passenger's door has no damage.

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At the end of the movie, when Dusan begins to walk down the street with the nuke in his backpack, he meets the same two girls twice while walking.

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Quotes

Julia: Where the hell is my military liason?

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Julia Kelly: So do you think he set us up?

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Thomas Devoe: Doctor, you can run your charts and your theories all you want. In the field, this is how it works: the good guys, that's us, we chase the bad guys. And they don't wear black hats. They are, however, all alike: they demand power, and respect, and they're willing to pay top dollar to get it. And that is our highly motivated buyer.

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Faq

Q

How does does Dr. Kelly stop the bomb from going nuclear at the end of the film?

A

The bomb Dr. Kelly is working on has a plutonium sphere surrounded by explosive panels. By the simple expediency of cutting all the detonator wires to the same length, all the explosive panels will detonate simultaneously, crushing the sphere with the pressure of a million atmospheres, reducing its size to that of a walnut, increasing its density, and rendering the sub-critical plutonium "critical" (or "super-critical"), the necessary preliminary before the plutonium is bombarded by neutrons and a nuclear chain reaction is started.By removing one of the panels, she ruins the effect of the explosion and prevents the plutonium from going critical. The bomb still explodes, and fragments of plutonium are scattered everywhere (fortunately, most of the radiation will be contained inside the church).

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