Man on Fire(Movie, 1987)

Name: Man on Fire
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1987
Duration: T01:32:00
Rating: 3

| 1h 32min | Genres: Drama, Thriller

Rating: 3.0/5 (with 23 votes)

Man on Fire (Italian: Un uomo sotto tiro, French: L'homme de feu) is a 1987 action thriller film directed by Élie Chouraqui and starring Scott Glenn and Jade Malle. It is based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell, with a screenplay by Chouraqui, Sergio Donati, and Fabrice Ziolkowski. The rest of the cast includes Joe Pesci, Jonathan Pryce, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, and Paul Shenar. Another film based on the same novel, also called Man on Fire, was released in 2004, directed by Tony Scott. ()

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About Man on Fire

Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.

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Additional Information

Production countries: France, Italy

Shot in: Milan, Lake Como

Plays in: Italy

Based on the work of: A. J. Quinnell ("Man on Fire")

Made by: 7 Films Cinéma, Cima Produzioni

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Italian (IT)

Translated into 15 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/09/1987 (World premiere: 09/04/1987)

Cast: Joe Pesci, Scott Glenn, Brooke Adams, Jonathan Pryce, Paul Shenar, Danny Aiello, Laura Morante, Alessandro Haber, Franco Trevisi, Lou Castel, Lorenzo Piani, Giuseppe Cederna, Piero Vida, Angela Finocchiaro, Anita Zagaria

Director: Élie Chouraqui

Producer: Arnon Milchan

Screenwriter: Sergio Donati, Élie Chouraqui

Film Editor: Noëlle Boisson

Director of Photography: Gerry Fisher

Composer: John Scott

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Una razón para vivir"

"Um Homem em Fogo"

"L'Homme de feu"

"Un uomo sotto tiro"

Keywords: adult child friendship, traumatized man, lake como, italy, organized crime, ex-cia agent, child kidnapping, bodyguard, based on novel or book

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