The Last Action Hero
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| Directed by | John McTiernan |
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| Music by | Michael Kamen |
| Cinematography | Dean Semler |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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131 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $85 million |
| Box office | $137.3 million |
| Last Action Hero: Music from the Original Motion Picture | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
| Released | June 8, 1993 |
| Genre | Heavy metal, alternative metal, grunge, alternative rock, hard rock |
| Length | 54:19 |
| Label | Columbia Records |
| Singles from Last Action Hero: Music from the Original Motion Picture | |
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Last Action Hero is a 1993 American fantasy action comedy film directed and produced by John McTiernan. It is a satire of the action genre and associated clichés, containing several parodies of action films in the form of films within the film.The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater, a Los Angeles police detective within the Jack Slater action film franchise. Austin O'Brien co-stars as a boy magically transported into the Slater universe. Schwarzenegger also served as the film's executive producer and plays himself as the actor portraying Jack Slater, and Charles Dance plays an assassin who escapes from the Slater world into the real world.
Though the film was a box office disappointment during its initial theatrical release, it became a cult film among fans and critics. The film also features Art Carney's last appearance in a motion picture.
Young Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) is a teenage boy living in a crime-ridden area of New York City with his widowed mother. Following the death of his father, Danny who is a film buff, takes comfort in watching action movies, especially the ones featuring the indestructible Los Angeles cop Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger). He often is usually late to school because of watching the films at his elderly friend Nick's who owns the movie theatre and is the projectionist. When Nick gives Danny a golden ticket once owned by Harry Houdini, to see a early preview of the new Jack Slater film that hasn't been released yet. Danny soon finds himself pulled into the world of Jack Slater IV.
Danny's insists that they are in a film, but Slater believes Danny is just an imaginative kid - despite Danny's intimate knowledge of Slater's life and world. Danny soon becomes Jacks partner and attempts to help Slater solve his current case by leading him to the mansion home of the villain Tony Vivaldi. Unfortunately, this alerts Vivaldi's henchman Mr. Benedict (Charles Dance) to the pair. Benedict attempts to assassinate the two, stealing Danny's ticket in the process and eventually finding his way to our world.
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