Terminal Velocity (film)

Infobox Film
name = Terminal Velocity


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writer = David Twohy
starring = Charlie Sheen
Nastassja Kinski
James Gandolfini
Christopher McDonald
director = Deran Sarafian
producer = David Twohy
Ted Field
Robert W. Cort
distributor = Hollywood Pictures
released = September 23 1994
runtime = 102 min.
language = English
imdb_id = 0111400
budget = $50,000,000 US (est.)

"Terminal Velocity" is a 1994 action movie starring Charlie Sheen as a daredevil skydiver who becomes mixed up with Russian spies. It was written by David Twohy and directed by Deran Sarafian. Originally, Sheen's role was written for Tom Cruise, although William Baldwin was also considered. The script itself sold for US $500,000. The musical score was composed by Joel McNeely.

ynopsis

A Boeing 747 lands in the middle of a desert. A young Russian woman is tortured by getting dunked in the aquarium of her apartment until she drowns dreadfully. Skydiving instructor Richard 'Ditch' Brodie (Charlie Sheen) takes on a new client, Chris Morrow (Nastassja Kinski), who on her first jump doesn't open her parachute and apparently dies.

Brodie discovers that Morrow faked her death and that she is really a Russian spy trying to recover a shipment of gold. Brodie uses all of his skydiving skills to outwit the villains and to stay alive.

Cast

*Charlie Sheen- Richard "Ditch" Brodie
*Nastassja Kinski- Chris Morrow
*James Gandolfini- Ben Pinkwater
*Christopher McDonald- Kerr
*Melvin Van Peebles- Noble

Effects

The final stunt - with Sheen at the wheel of a sports car falling to earth - was a mixture of bluescreen and camera work, as a real car was suspended beneath a helicopter and then a reverse zoom made it seem as if it were in free-fall.