Sudden Death [Blu-ray]

Director: Peter Hyams Peter Hyams

Overview

Pittsburgh Penguins owner Howard Baldwin was the producer of Sudden Death, and the action is set in his hockey arena, in which the Penguins are playing the Chicago Blackhawks. Pittsburgh fire inspector Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is attending the game with his two children. He's quit fighting fires because of a tragedy a few years earlier involving a child he couldn't save. Also at the game is the vice-president of the United States (Raymond Barry), who is the target of a terrorist plot. The terrorist leader, an insane ex-CIA agent named Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe), has masterminded a scheme to hold the vice-president hostage in his luxury suite while demanding that payments be transferred to his account electronically at the end of each period of the game. If he doesn't get his money, he will kill one member of the vice-president's party at the end of each period, and at game's end he will order ten bombs hidden in the arena to be detonated with all 17,000 fans present. McCord discovers the plot while his daughter Emily (Whittni Wright) is kidnapped by the terrorists too. McCord must dispatch the villains and find the bombs, while saving all the hostages. Luckily, he is adept at martial arts. He fights one henchman dressed in a Penguins mascot outfit in the arena's kitchen, and another terrorist on the arena's retracting dome. At one point, McCord switches identities with a player, is sent into the game, and scores a goal. Director Peter Hyams also directed Van Damme in the blockbuster Timecop. ~ Michael Betzold

Product Details

Release Date:	03/20/2020
UPC:	0191329133040
Original Release:	1995
Rating:	R
Source:	Universal
Language:	English
Time:	1:50:00
Sales rank:	15,105

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jean-Claude Van Damme	Darren Francis Thomas McCord
Powers Boothe	Joshua Foss
Raymond J. Barry	Vice President Daniel Bender,Actor
Whittni Wright	Emily McCord
Ross Malinger	Tyler McCord
Dorian Harewood	Matthew Hallmark
Kate McNeil	Kathi
Michael Gaston	Hickey
Audra Lindley	Mrs. Ferrara
Brian Delate	Blair
Steve Aronson	Dooley
Michael Aubele	Ace
Karen Baldwin	TV Director
Jennifer D. Bowser	Joan
Pat Brisson	Player #2
Glenda Morgan Brown	Mrs. Taylor,Wootton
William Cameron	Secret Service Agent
Bernie Canepari	Jefferson
Jay Caufield	Tolliver
Alan Clement	Mr. Wirtz,Pre-Game Announcer
Bill Dalzell III	Spota
Gil Combs	Secret Service #1
Jack Erdie	Scratch
Edward Evanko	Baldwin
David Flick	Spectator
Glenn Alan Gardner	Sugarman Driver
Jeff Habbersted	Lewis
Mark Hager	Elevator Secret Service Agent
John Hateley	Briggs
Rosine 'Ace' Hatem	Concessionaire
Jeff Hochendoner	Duckerman
Jeff Howell	Usborn
Brian Hutchison	Young Secret Service Agent
Jeff Jimerson	Anthem Singer
Mark Kachowski	Beaumont
Callum Keith-King	Kitchen Assistant
Rick LeFevour	Ante Room Secret Service Agent
Tommy LaFitte	Sugarman Guard
Raymond Laine	Foss' Man #1
Mike Lange	Play-by-Play Announcer
Butch Luick	Fat Man
Fred Mancuso	Pratt
Larry John Meyers	Box Secret Service Agent
Ken Milchick	Coach
Faith Minton	Carla
Paul Mochnick	Andrew Ferrara
Brad Moniz	Toowey
Jean Pierre Nutini	Employee
Daniel R. Pagath	Assistant Coach
Manuel Perry	Brody
Allan Pinsker	Older Man
Douglas Rees	Spotter
Diane Robin	Mrs. Baldwin
Thomas Saccio	Foss Helicopter Pilot
Vinnie Sciullo	Foss' Man #2
Jack Skelly	Elderly Guard
Brian Smrz	Thug
Phil Spano	Player #1
Paul Steigerwald	Color Commentator
John Sterling	Kitchen Secret Service Agent
Harold Surratt	Hallmark's Secret Service Agent #3
Rohn Thomas	Mayor Taylor
Milton E. Thompson Jr.	Kurtz
Dixie Tymitz	Mrs. Wirtz
Fred Waugh	Bluto
Rema D. Webb	Cindy
Dean E. Wells	Kloner
Jake Teague	Actor
Anthony Marino	Vendor
Paul Mochnik	Andrew Ferrara
Dixie Neyland Tymitz	Mrs Wirtz
John Debney	Composer

Technical Credits

Karen Baldwin

Gene Quintano

Peter Hyams	Director
Karen Baldwin	Screenwriter,Producer
Gene Quintano	Screenwriter
Moshe Diamant	Producer
Anders P. Jensen	Executive Producer
Sunil R. Shah	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Dino Dimuro	Sound Effects
Gregory L. McMurray	Special Effects
John Des Jardin	Special Effects
Garry Elmendorf	Special Effects
Les Lazarowitz	Sound/Sound Designer
Gary Bourgeois	Sound/Sound Designer
Brad Sherman	Sound/Sound Designer