Cutthroat Island
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| Directed by | Renny Harlin |
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| Music by | John Debney |
| Cinematography | Peter Levy |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $98 million |
| Box office | $10 million |
Cutthroat Island is a 1995 romantic comedy action adventure film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Robert King and Marc Norman based on a story by Michael Frost Beckner, James Gorman, Bruce A. Evans, and Raymond Gideon. It stars Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langella. The film is an international co-production among companies in the United States, France, Germany, and Italy.
The film had a notoriously troubled and chaotic production, involving multiple rewrites and recasts, and received mixed reviews, whereas the high production values, action sequences, shooting locations, and the musical score were praised. It is notable for being the largest box office bomb when adjusted for inflation, and was the last film from Carolco Pictures before its closure, until the company's relaunch in 2015.
In 1668 Jamaica, Morgan Adams (Geena Davis) hunts down her uncle and fellow pirate Dawg Brown (Frank Langella), who has captured her father, Black Harry (Harris Yulin). Black Harry has one of three pieces of a map to a huge stash of gold on the remote Cutthroat Island. Dawg has another piece, having stolen it from the corpse of a third brother, Richard, while a fourth brother, Mordechai (George Murcell), has the last piece. Harry refuses to give Dawg his piece and escapes with Morgan's help, but not before being mortally wounded. A dying Harry reveals to his daughter the location of the map piece: on his scalp.
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