Crackerjack (1994 film)
| Crackerjack | |
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| Directed by | Michael Mazo | 
| Screenplay by | Micheal Bafaro  Jonas Quastel  | 
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| Cinematography | Danny Nowak | 
| Edited by | Richard Benwick | 
| Music by | Peter Allen | 
| Distributed by | Republic Pictures MDP Worldwide  | 
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Running time  | 96 minutes | 
| Countries | Canada United States  | 
| Language | English | 
| Budget | CAD$4 million | 
Crackerjack is a 1994 Canadian-American action film directed by Michael Mazo, and starring Thomas Ian Griffith, Nastassja Kinski and Christopher Plummer. The setting is the Rocky Mountains. In the film, a troubled widowed cop (Griffith) and a tour guide (Kinski) attempt to prevent a high-stakes robber (Plummer) from burying the mountain hotel hosting a wealthy mobster—whom both cop and robber are after—in an avalanche. The film was part of a wave of 1990s Die Hard imitators, and is often regarded as one of the better-made independent efforts in that subgenre.
The film features a plot typical for terrorism-related films, with a terrorist group taking over a mountain resort, planning to destroy it in an intentional avalanche and to eliminate the other residents.