Edge of Darkness (2010 film)
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| Directed by | Martin Campbell |
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Edge of Darkness by Troy Kennedy Martin |
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| Music by | Howard Shore |
| Cinematography | Phil Meheux |
| Edited by | Stuart Baird |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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117 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $80 million |
| Box office | $101 million |
Edge of Darkness is a 2010 British-American political thriller film directed by Martin Campbell and also produced by Michael Wearing, starring Mel Gibson. It was based on the 1985 BBC television series of the same name, which was likewise directed by Campbell. This was Gibson's first screen lead since Signs, which was released in late 2002. Edge of Darkness follows a detective (Gibson) investigating the murder of his activist daughter (Bojana Novakovic), while uncovering political conspiracies and cover-ups in the process.
At South Station, Boston, police homicide detective Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) picks up his daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic), who comes home to visit and vomits while getting into the car. As Craven prepares dinner at home, Emma suffers a nosebleed and vomits again. As the two attempt to go to the hospital, a masked gunman below yells "Craven!", fatally wounds Emma, and escapes.
After identifying the body at the medical examiner's office, he takes a sample of Emma's hair as a memento and incidentally discovers that it is radioactive. Then, though everyone assumes Craven was the gunman's target, when he finds Emma had a .45 pistol in her night stand, he starts to suspect that possibly Emma was the intended target. At the police station, he checks the gun's ownership and finds that it belongs to her boyfriend David (Shawn Roberts). David is living in fear of a company called Northmoor, where Emma worked. She discovered that Northmoor, a research and development facility under contract to the U.S. government by Jack Bennett (Danny Huston), was secretly manufacturing nuclear weapons using foreign material and foreign specifications. The weapons were intended to be traced to foreign nations if they were used as dirty bombs.
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