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Collateral (2004)

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Movie Info


Genre

Action, Crime

Release Date

August 06, 2004

MPAA Rating

R

Duration

125 min.

Production Budget

$65 millions

Studio

DreamWorks

Official Site

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REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Go! Watch this movie. You'll regret if not seeing it.    Readers  5 of 5 [Rate It]

Cast and Crew


Director

Michael Mann

Producer

Michael Mann, Julie Richardson

Screenwriter

Stuart Beattie, Frank Darabont, Michael Mann

Starring

Movie Story


Three-time Academy Award® nominee Tom Cruise ("Magnolia," "Jerry Maguire," "Born on the Fourth of July"), Jamie Foxx ("Ali," "Any Given Sunday") and Jada Pinkett Smith ("The Matrix Reloaded," "The Matrix Revolutions") star in the thriller "Collateral," under the direction of three-time Academy Award® nominee Michael Mann ("The Insider").

Max (Jamie Foxx) has lived the mundane life of a cab driver for 12 years. The faces have come and gone from his rearview mirror, people and places he's long since forgotten...until tonight. Vincent (Tom Cruise) is a contract killer. When an offshore narcotrafficking cartel learns they're about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witnesses, and the last stage is tonight. Tonight, Vincent arrived in L.A...and five bodies are supposed to fall.

Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max's taxicab, and Max becomes collateral-an expendable person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the LAPD and FBI race to intercept them, Max and Vincent's survival becomes dependent on each other in ways neither would have imagined.

Jada Pinkett Smith stars as United States Attorney Annie Farrell. Rounding out the main cast are Mark Ruffalo ("In the Cut"), Peter Berg ("Cop Land"), Oscar® nominee Javier Bardem ("Before Night Falls") and Bruce McGill ("Runaway Jury").

A co-production of DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, "Collateral" is being produced by Michael Mann and Julie Richardson from a screenplay by Stuart Beattie. Frank Darabont, Chuck Russell, Rob Fried and Peter Giuliano served as executive producers.

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Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx in DreamWorks' Collateral (2004)
Tom Cruise as Vincent in DreamWorks' Collateral (2004)

Reader's Reviews


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you made me believe that you are aprofessional kill

posted by Abeer on Jun 29, 2008

Tom Cruise's portrayal of vincent the contract killer is Magnificent...

posted by Anoush SkyWalker on Aug 10, 2009

tom cruise did very well. and jamie foxx, actually. good movie.

posted by rdog on Oct 16, 2009
 
 

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