The Hunting Party (2007 film)
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Promotional poster
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| Directed by | Richard Shepard |
| Produced by |
Mark Johnson Scott Kroopf Paul Hanson |
| Written by | Richard Shepard |
| Starring |
Richard Gere Terrence Howard Jesse Eisenberg Ljubomir Kerekeš Diane Kruger James Brolin Dylan Baker Kristina Krepela Aleksandra Grdić |
| Music by | Rolfe Kent |
| Cinematography | David Tattersall |
| Edited by | Carole Kravetz |
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| Distributed by |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Weinstein Company |
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Release date
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September 7, 2007 |
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Running time
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101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$40 million |
| Box office |
$969,869 (USA only) |
$969,869 (USA only)
$6,674,540 (foreign)
The Hunting Party is a 2007 American action-adventure-thriller film with elements of political activism and dark satire starring Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Diane Kruger and Jesse Eisenberg. The working title for this film was Spring Break in Bosnia before being changed to The Hunting Party during post-production.
The Hunting Party had its world premiere at the 64th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2007. The movie turned out to be a huge disappointment domestically, grossing only US$969,869 in US theatres.
The film begins with a disclaimer: Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true.
After years of covering one armed conflict after another, American journalist Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) is in Bosnia and Herzegovina in early 1994 reporting on the Bosnian War. In parallel, he has managed to romance a local Muslim girl who is pregnant with his child. However, in the late stages of her pregnancy, she is killed by the Bosnian Serb forces when they overrun her village. Upon seeing the carnage, Simon vows revenge on the Bosnian Serb political leader Dragoslav Bogdanović —known as "The Fox".
Reporting on the gruesome event later that day in a live remote link-up, Simon loses his composure at the network anchor Franklin Harris' (James Brolin) suggestion that the Serb attack may have been a reaction to Muslim provocation attacks from inside the village. As a result of his on-air meltdown, Simon's journalistic career takes a tumble. While his professional prospects spiral downhill, those of his long-time camera man Duck (Terrence Howard) go in the opposite direction. Duck gets a cushy job at the network, while Hunt is left following war after war, as a freelancer, in an attempt to get back on US network television map.
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