Rent Breakdown (1997)
3.5 of 5 from 101 ratings
1h 29min
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- Synopsis:
- Jeff and Amy decide to change their lives, to give it all up and move to California. But their car breaks down in the middle of the desert. Luckily a truck driver offers to take Amy to the nearest restaurant to call for help. Finally managing to find the problem with the car, Jeff decides to go and fetch his wife from a bar in the middle of nowhere. But no-one seems to have seen Amy nor the mysterious truck...
- Actors:
- Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan, M.C. Gainey, Jack Noseworthy, Rex Linn, Ritch Brinkley, Moira Sinise, Kim Robillard, Thomas Kopache, Jack McGee, Vincent Berry, Helen Duffy, Ancel Cook, Gene Hartline
- Directors:
- Jonathan Mostow
- Writers:
- Jonathan Mostow
- Studio:
- 20th Century Fox
- Genres:
- Thrillers
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Reviews (1) of Breakdown
No Place for the RAC - Breakdown review by TE
Improbable but enjoyable, 'Breakdown' is one of those American films that expresses the fear and suspicion that middle class urbanites feel about rural working class communities (sometimes with justification!).
The emphasis is on action, threat and car chases. The stunt men must have deserved every dollar of their wages. Any acting chops from the likes of the great J.T. Walsh and the ever-reliable Kurt Russell are buried under a a mound of burned rubber and desert dust.
But it's a competent thriller, and the final scene is like the 'Italian Job' on steroids.
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