| Bird on a Wire | |
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| Directed By | John Badham |
| Written By | Louis Venosta, David Seltzer |
| Cast | Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Bill Duke, David Carradine |
| Produced By | Rob Cohen |
| Cinematography By | Robert Primes |
| Film Editing By | Frank Morriss, Dallas Puett |
| Music By | Hans Zimmer |
| Studio | Interscope Communications, The Badham/Cohen Group |
| Distributed By | Universal Pictures |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Release Date | May 18, 1990 |
| Runtime | 110 Minutes |
| Rating | PG-13 |
| Budget | $20,000,000 |
| Gross | $138,697,012 |
Plot[]
15 years after she buried her fiancee, Rick Jarmin and mourned his unexpected death; cutthroat New York attorney Marianne Graves runs into a gas station attendant who is the spitting image of him. There's a reason for that. Jarmin's still alive, just under Witness Protection after he testified against a crooked drug dealing FBI agent Eugene Sorenson.
Her timing could not be worse ... or better. Because Sorenson has just been released from prison and he's out looking for Rick ... and a little bit of revenge. Using his former FBI contacts to track him down and erase his records from the system, the authorities are convinced Rick has been dead for years and his current identity is smeared as a murderer thanks to Sorenson; Rick is in dire need of someone trustworthy and has no one to turn to.
No one except for Marianne and a list of offbeat characters and eccentric associates that he developed during his time in Witness Protection. His only hope is his old FBI contact, now retired who might have his old files which Rick can use to prove his story. But is his greatest enemy Sorenson or Marianne's blundering attempts to help?
Cast[]
- Mel Gibson as Rick Jarmin
- Goldie Hawn as Marianne Graves
- David Carradine as Eugene Sorenson
- Bill Duke as Albert Diggs
- Stephen Tobolowsky as Joe Weyburn
- Joan Severance as Rachel Varney
- Jeff Corey as Lou Baird
- Christopher Judge as Cop at Cafe