Description: Breakdown is a 1997 American action thriller film directed and co-written by Jonathan Mostow. It stars Kurt Russell, J. T. Walsh, and Kathleen Quinlan. The original music score was composed by Basil Poledouris. The film was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Martha De Laurentiis, and released on May 2, 1997 by Paramount Pictures. It is the final film featuring Walsh to be released in his lifetime. DETAILED PLOT Jeff Taylor and his wife Amy drive cross-country from Boston to San Diego in their new Jeep Grand Cherokee. While driving, Jeff narrowly avoids colliding with a beat-up pickup truck. Later, at a gas station, Earl, the driver of the pickup truck, confronts Jeff and they exchange hostile words. Shortly after the couple resume their journey, their car breaks down on a vacant road in the middle of a desert. Leaving Jeff with the Jeep, Amy accepts a ride from a passing trailer truck driver to get to a nearby diner and call for help. Jeff eventually discovers that someone has tampered with the Jeep's battery connections. After reconnecting them, he drives to the diner, only to discover that no one has seen Amy. Jeff sees the trucker on the road and forces him to stop, but the trucker claims he has never seen Jeff or Amy. Jeff then hails a passing sheriff named Boyd, but a brief search of the truck yields no sign of Amy. The trucker, Red Barr, is allowed to leave and Boyd tells Jeff to see the deputy in the town of Brackett. After speaking with the deputy, Jeff goes back to the diner. Billy, a mentally-impaired mechanic, informs Jeff that Amy left with some men, but refuses to speak with the police, claiming they are involved. Jeff rushes to the location Billy mentioned, but is ambushed on a back road by Earl. He escapes by driving his Jeep into a river and swimming away. After reaching the shore, Jeff circles back to watch Earl and another accomplice, Al, pull his jeep out of the water. He is then discovered and knocked out by Billy. When Jeff awakens, he is confronted by Billy (who feigned mental impairment earlier) and Earl. Their leader is Red Barr, who informs Jeff that he wants the $90,000 in Jeff's bank account in exchange for Amy's life, ordering him to withdraw the money in the nearby town of Brackett. Realizing he only has $5,000, Jeff attempts to alert the bank manager of his situation. However, paranoid that Red's group is keeping an eye on him, Jeff abandons the idea and steals marked money ribbons and a letter opener. He uses the money ribbons to pack stacks of $1 bills between two $100 bills. Jeff is then instructed to leave town, where Earl picks him up and binds him with duct tape. Earl begins gloating about how Jeff and his wife were easy targets, how he tampered with their Jeep, and that his group intends to kill them if the assumed $90,000 amount is not obtained. Jeff cuts himself free with the letter opener and stabs Earl. After a brief struggle, Jeff takes over the vehicle, binds Earl, and tortures him to reveal his rendezvous with Red at a local truck stop. They pass Boyd, who sees the speeding, swerving pickup and stops the vehicle. When Jeff exits the truck with Earl's gun, Boyd mistakes the situation and forces him to lie down. Earl frees himself and shoots Boyd with a concealed gun. Before Earl can shoot Jeff, a wounded Boyd shoots and kills him. Jeff uses Boyd's radio to call for an ambulance and rushes to the truck stop. At the stop, Jeff sees Red and then stows away under the trailer of his truck. Early the next morning, Red arrives at his farm. Jeff sneaks into the barn, discovering evidence that Red has a history of robbing and killing people and that his real name is Warren. Al and Billy arrive with a bound and gagged Amy, whom they lock in a freezer in the barn's cellar, leaving her to die. Unable to open the cellar door, Jeff finds a gun and demands the cellar key from Red. When he is distracted by Red's son Deke, Billy escapes. Jeff forces Al, Red, his wife Arleen, and Deke to release Amy then locks them in the cellar. Jeff and Amy steal a pickup truck and flee, while Billy returns to free his accomplices, who each pursue the Taylors in their own vehicles. During the pursuit, Billy is killed in an explosion when Jeff forces his car off the road. Shortly after, the trailer from Red's truck detaches, causing Al to fatally crash into it. Undeterred, Red attempts to push Jeff and Amy's vehicle off a bridge with his truck, trapping Amy's leg underneath the dashboard. Jeff rushes out of the vehicle and into Red's prime mover, where a struggle over the steering wheel forces Red's truck over the edge, leaving it dangling on a steel bridge support. Red attacks Jeff with a chain, until Jeff abruptly catches the chain and hurls Red to the rocks below. Jeff frees Amy from the dashboard. Seeing that Red survived the fall, Amy pulls the automatic shifter on their pickup truck, causing the suspended prime mover to fall and crush him. Sitting on the edge of the bridge beside their mangled pickup, Jeff and Amy embrace each other, waiting for the police to arrive.
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Case Type: Tall/DVD Case
Rating: M
Subtitle Language: English Captions For The Hearing Impaired
Custom Bundle: No
MPN: Multi Region Player Required To Play Outside Aust & NZ
Studio: Dino De Laurentiis Company Spelling Films Paramount Pictures
Region Code: DVD: 4 (AU, NZ, Latin America...)
Format: DVD
Language: English
Release Year: 1997
Actor: Kurt Russell J. T. Walsh Kathleen Quinlan
Features: Theatrical Trailer, Scene Selection
Movie/TV Title: Breakdown
Season: NA
Music Artist: Basil Poledouris
Video Format: PAL
Sub-Genre: Travel
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Cinematic Movement: Arthouse/Independent
Edition: Widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Type: Movie
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis Martha De Laurentiis
Genre: Thriller & Mystery
Run Time: 89 Minutes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
