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Released
1990 · FILM

Hard to Kill

A relentless detective awakens from a seven‑year coma to hunt down the corrupt politician who ordered his family’s murder, racing against deadly assassins determined to silence him forever.

“He's L.A. Detective Mason Storm. Three hired assassins left him for dead. And he's waited seven years to even the score.”

Directed by
Bruce Malmuth
Written by
Steven Mckay
Runtime
95 min
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Mason Storm, a lone-wolf police officer, is shot dead in his home by intruders who also kill his wife, believing both Mason and his son to be dead as well. Mason is secretly transported to a hospital, where he remains in a coma for several years. During this time, his son grows up thinking his father is deceased. When Mason finally awakens, he and those around him—including his son, his best friend, and his nurse—find themselves in danger, particularly from those responsible for orchestrating his death.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John F LinkShot by Matthew F LeonettiScored by David Michael FrankDesigned by Robb Wilson King

Box Office

1990 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$47.4M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$47.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $9.2M — 19% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $12.1M — 26% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,301 theaters

Also known as

  • Hard to Killde
  • Échec et Mortfr
  • Duro da uccidereit

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