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Breakdown

6.9/ 10

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1997

Release Year

93 min

Runtime

Crime
Mystery
Thriller
Drama
Action

Overview

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy isn't there. He tracks down the trucker ― who tells the police he's never seen Jeff or his wife before. Jeff then begins a desperate, frenzied search for Amy.

Keywords

california
chase
ransom
kidnapping
bank
paranoia
new mexico
highway
barn
diner
vacation
deception
road trip
donut
murder
stranded
redneck
extortion
captive
desert
truck driver
woman in jeopardy
abduction

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Reviews(3)

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CRCulver

September 6, 2018

2
2/10

In <i>Breakdown</i>, Kurt Russell and Amy Quinlan play a wealthy New England couple who find horror in Iowa. While driving cross-country, their car breaks down. The various local people they meet who initially seem helpful are in fact criminals working together. The wife is kidnapped, the husband is

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John Chard

John Chard

May 16, 2020

8
8/10

Super Thriller. Breakdown is directed by Jonathan Mostow and Mostow co-writes the screenplay with Sam Montgomery. It stars Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, M.C. Gainey, Kathleen Quinlan, Rex Linn, Jack Noseworthy and Ritch Brinkley. Music is by Basil Poledouris and cinematography by Douglas Milsome.

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JPV852

JPV852

September 19, 2021

8
8/10

Simple but really solid suspense-thriller with some good sequences especially the finale with great car stunts. Not much to the performances or characters, but Kurt Russell was, as usual, good in the lead and J.T. Walsh sinister as the primary villain. **3.75/5**

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