Daylight (film)
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| Directed by | Rob Cohen |
| Produced by | John Davis David T. Friendly Joseph Singer |
| Written by | Leslie Bohem |
| Starring | Sylvester Stallone Amy Brenneman Viggo Mortensen Dan Hedaya Jay O. Sanders Karen Young Danielle Harris |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 6, 1996 |
| Running time | 115 mins. (US) 110 mins. (AU)/(GER) |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $ 80,000,000 |
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Daylight is a 1996 disaster film, starring Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Dan Hedaya, and Danielle Harris. It was directed by Rob Cohen and released in theaters on December 6, 1996.
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[edit] Plot
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The film opens with a waste management firm in upstate NY trying to illegally dispose of toxic waste. Chemicals are loaded on three trucks bound for New Jersey. Meanwhile, a crew of diamond thieves steal a shipment of stones and a black Cadillac Seville. The thieves are pursued by NYPD, who elude capture by heading to the "Tunnel to New Jersey". As the thieves enter the tunnel, the trucks loaded with toxic waste make their way into the tunnel as well. The thieves push their way past the traffic entering the tunnel, causing chaos as they make their way through the north tube. As they weave and shove their way past traffic, the diamonds spill all over the floor of the car. As one of the thieves reaches down to get the diamonds, she pushes the gas pedal to the floor. The Cadillac accelerates wildly, and the driver loses control. The car hits the tunnel wall, and goes airborne, smashing into a booth which houses Port Authority police officers who patrol the tunnel, and smashes into one of the trucks carrying toxic waste. The truck explodes, setting off a chain reaction explosion that destroys the other two trucks. The destruction of the trucks and its cargo creates a devastating explosion that causes the roof of the tunnel to cave in. Cars on the New Jersey end are flattened. Another explosion takes place, and the fire, fueled by the remaining oxygen in the tube, explodes into a fireball, rushing through the tunnel at hellish speed. The fireball devours everything in its path.
On the Manhattan end of the tunnel, emergency expert Kit Latura (Sylvester Stallone) is preparing to drive into the tunnel when the entrance suddenly explodes. The entrance caves in, blocking the tunnel. He then races into action, trying to help whoever he can. He runs into an old EMS colleague who tells him that the tunnel is severely damaged.
Latura then checks with tunnel administrators, and finds that the hidden passages have all been sealed off. The only escape route, the Mid River Passage, a service tunnel running between the north and south tubes, has been so severely damaged in the blast that it is virtually impossible to use as an escape route. With the tube weakened, the structure could come down if any wrong moves are made. Latura discovers that the ventilation systems have been knocked out, and if there are any survivors down there, they don't have much time. With the toxic fire burning at the Jersey end, and the carbon monoxide level rapidly rising, the remaining air supply will only last three more hours. The only way is to send someone down there with a solution: To blow the roof of the tunnel in to seal off the remaining survivors from the fumes, and to wait it out until rescue crews arrive. Latura is given clearance, and descends through the ventilation system to the tubes under the river. The tube consists of four fans that ventilates the area. Latura was warned that the fans go 160 miles per hour, with another note that if the fans were to be shut down, the fans will automatically turn back on within one minute with 15 second intervals for the others. Latura successfully passes through all four fans, but loses his radio on the third fan. With the Mid river deemed impassable, and the icy waters of the river above slowly approaching, Latura must reach the remaining survivors before their air supply runs out.
[edit] Cast
- Sylvester Stallone as Kit Latura
- Amy Brenneman as Madelyne Thompson
- Viggo Mortensen as Roy Nord
- Stan Shaw as George Tyrell
- Sage Stallone as Vincent
- Trina McGee Davis as LaTonya
- Danielle Harris as Ashley Crighton
- Jay O. Sanders as Steven Crighton
- Karen Young as Sarah Crighton
- Colin Fox as Roger Trilling
- Claire Bloom as Eleanor Trilling
- Dan Hedaya as Frank Craft
- Vanessa Bell Calloway as Grace Calloway
- Renoly Santiago as Mikey
[edit] Reception
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While Daylight only made $33 million in the US, overseas it took in over $126 million, resulting in gross earnings of $159,212,469 worldwide. The film won a Golden Reel Award for best Sound Editing and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. It was nominated for two Razzie Awards for worst actor (Sylvester Stallone) and Worst Original Song.
[edit] External links
- Daylight at the Internet Movie Database
