Blown Away

United States

1994

121 Min

2.35:1

English, Irish

Currently 2.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Pen Densham, Richard Barton Lewis, John Watson

SCR John Rice, Joe Batteer, Jay Roach

CAST Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker, Stephi Lineburg, John Finn, Loyd Catlett, Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Jimmy Dove works for the bomb squad in Boston and he is always the one who is on the tough jobs. One day he decides to quit the force and to become a teacher for the rookies of the squad. A few days later his former partner is killed by a bomb and Jimmy becomes suspicious that maybe this bomb could have been built by a former friend of himself. He begins to investigate and finds out that his worst nightmare has returned from his past. —IMDb

Director

Stephen Hopkins

Stephen Hopkins (born in 1958) is a Jamaican-born film director and producer. He is best-known for his continuation of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise with A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child and the Predator franchise with Predator 2. His highest grossing film however was the 1998 film adaption of the TV series Lost in Space.

He was born in Jamaica and was raised in Australia and England. He was educated at Sutton Valence School.

In 2004, Hopkins directed the controversial biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers which raised the ire of the actor’s son Michael Sellers.

Hopkins was a co-executive producer for the first season of the Fox action drama 24, and also directed half of the season’s episodes, including the first and last episodes. —Wikipedia