Broken Arrow (1996 film)
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | John Woo |
| Produced by | Bill Badalato Terence Chang Mark Gordon |
| Written by | Graham Yost |
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| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography | Peter Levy |
| Edited by |
Joe Hutshing Steve Mirkovich John Wright |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Release date
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February 9, 1996 |
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Running time
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108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50 million |
| Box office | $150.2 million |
Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action film directed by John Woo, written by Graham Yost, and starring John Travolta and Christian Slater. It deals with the theft of two American nuclear weapons.
Major Vic Deakins (John Travolta) and Captain Riley Hale (Christian Slater) are pilots in the United States Air Force. After a sparring match, they are assigned to a top secret evening exercise over Utah, flying a B-3 Stealth Bomber (a fictional iteration of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber) with two B83 nuclear bombs on board. After successfully evading Air Force radar during the exercise, Deakins distracts and attacks Hale. A struggle ensues, ending when Deakins ejects Hale. Deakins then releases the bombs from the plane without detonating them, and reports that Hale's gone rogue. He then ejects from the bomber himself, leaving it to crash on the mountainside over the Utah canyons.
A search and rescue team is sent to recover the warheads. They do not find the warheads and report a "Broken Arrow", a situation wherein nuclear weapons are missing. The team later locates the warheads in a canyon but are killed by mercenaries, including Sgt. Kelly (Howie Long), a corrupt member of the team. Deakins arrives moments later and plots his next move with Pritchett (Bob Gunton), the operation's financier. They plan to blackmail the government with the threat of detonating the warhead in a civilian area.
Hale survives the ejection and is found by Park Ranger Terry Carmichael (Samantha Mathis). He convinces her to help him track down Deakins and foil his plot. After recovering one of the warheads from a hijacked Humvee and escaping to a nearby copper mine, Hale attempts to disable them using a safety feature which would render them unusable, by intentionally entering the arming code incorrectly. However, Deakins had anticipated this possibility, and rigged the device. As a result, Hale's action instead arms the warhead, setting the detonation timer for 30 minutes.
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