Speed (1994 film)
1994 action film by Jan de Bont / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Speed is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Jan de Bont (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Graham Yost, and starring Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, and Jeff Daniels. It revolves around a bus that is rigged by an extortionist to explode if its speed falls below 50 miles per hour (80 km/h or 22.35 m/s).
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Directed by | Jan de Bont |
Written by | Graham Yost |
Produced by | Mark Gordon |
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Cinematography | Andrzej Bartkowiak |
Edited by | John Wright |
Music by | Mark Mancina |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $30–37 million[1][2] |
Box office | $350.4 million[3] |
The film premiered in Hollywood on June 7, 1994, and was released in the rest of the United States on June 10, 1994. It became critically and commercially successful, grossing $350.4 million on a $30–37 million budget, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 1994 and winning two Academy Awards for Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Sound. Since its release, Speed has been regarded as one of the best action films of the 1990s. It solidified Reeves as an action film leading man and Bullock as a Hollywood leading actress. A sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control which fared much worse critically and commercially, was released three years later on June 13, 1997, receiving criticism for Reeves' abscence, setting, and is often regarded as one of the worst sequels and action films ever made. [4][5]