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Breakdown
1997
· Movie
· 93 min
B
MEANRANK
72/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1906
- IMDb #2232
- Google retired #1612
- Rotten Tomatoes #1977
- Metacritic #1127
- Letterboxd #1761
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1785
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2672
- Metacritic Critics #1132
- Metacritic Audience #1250
- Criticker #1659
- Kinopoisk #1756
- AlloCiné #2178
- Trakt #2448
Every rating
50–88
out of 100
A man's wife disappears from a remote gas station after their car breaks down in the desert. The truck driver who gave her a ride claims he never saw her. With the local authorities offering little help, the husband must take matters into his own hands to find her, uncovering a sinister kidnapping ring in the process.
Details
- Director
- Jonathan Mostow
- Writers
- Jonathan Mostow, Sam Montgomery
- Released
- 2 May 1997
- Country
- United States, Italy
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $36.0M
- Box office
- $50.2M
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Cast
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Awards
1 win & 2 nominations total
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