Sahara (2005 movie)
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| Directed by | Breck Eisner |
| Produced by | Stephanie Austin Howard Baldwin Karen Baldwin Mace Neufeld |
| Screenplay by |
James V. Hart Thomas Dean Donnelly Joshua Oppenheimer John C. Richards |
| Based on |
Sahara by Clive Cussler |
| Starring |
Matthew McConaughey Steve Zahn Penélope Cruz Lambert Wilson Glynn Turman Delroy Lindo William H. Macy |
| Music by | Clint Mansell |
| Cinematography | Seamus McGarvey |
| Edited by | Andrew MacRitchie |
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Bristol Bay Productions
Baldwin Entertainment Group Kanzaman Productions Mace Neufeld Productions Babelsberg Studio (uncredited) |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
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124 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom Spain Germany United States |
| Language | English French Arabic |
| Budget | $160 million |
| Box office | $119.3 million |
Sahara is a 2005 action-comedy adventure film directed by Breck Eisner that is based on the best-selling book of the same name by Clive Cussler. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn and Penélope Cruz and is an international co-production between the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany and the United States.
Sahara was a box office bomb earning just $119 million worldwide, against a budget of $160 million.
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In present day, in Mali, a civil war is being fought between dictator General Kazim and Tuareg people. World Health Organization doctors Eva Rojas and Frank Hopper investigate a disease spreading across Mali. Assassins accompanied by a corrupt Tuareg named Zakara attempt to murder Eva, but she is rescued by Dirk Pitt, who is from the National Underwater and Marine Agency and was diving nearby.
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