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Overview
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Graham Yost (written by)
Release Date:
10 June 1994 (USA)
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Tagline:
Get ready for rush hour.
Plot:
A young cop must save the passengers of a bus that has a bomb set to explode if the bus goes below 50 MPH. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 12 wins
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15 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(132 articles)
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Thoroughly entertaining
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Keanu Reeves | ... | Officer Jack Traven |
 | Dennis Hopper | ... | Howard Payne |
 | Sandra Bullock | ... | Annie Porter |
 | Joe Morton | ... | Capt. McMahon |
 | Jeff Daniels | ... | Det. Harold 'Harry' Temple |
 | Alan Ruck | ... | Stephens |
 | Glenn Plummer | ... | Jaguar Owner |
| Richard Lineback | ... | Norwood |
 | Beth Grant | ... | Helen |
| Hawthorne James | ... | Sam |
 | Carlos Carrasco | ... | Ortiz |
| David Kriegel | ... | Terry |
| Natsuko Ohama | ... | Mrs. Kamino |
| Daniel Villarreal | ... | Ray |
 | Simone Gad | ... | Bus Passenger #1 |
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence and language.
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Runtime:
116 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:14 (original rating) |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Australia:MA (Special Edition DVD) |
South Korea:15 |
Malaysia:U |
USA:R (certificate #32945) |
Brazil:14 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PA (Manitoba) |
Finland:K-14 |
France:U |
Germany:16 |
Ireland:15 |
Mexico:B |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:15 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15
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Trivia:
A "deleted scene" sees Jack shooting Howard Payne in the neck, just after he'd shot his partner in the leg at the beginning of the film. Later in the film, you can see the oval scar on Payne's neck caused by the deleted shooting.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: A break in the seam of the prosthetic covering of Payne's hand is visible when he lifts the venetian blind to check out Pershing Square.
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Quotes:
[first lines]
Security Guard: Hey, this area's restricted.
Howard Payne: Oh, hi. Yeah, I know. They called me down here. Some of this wiring got screwed up.
Security Guard: Nobody called it down to me. I'm going to have to see a work order.
Howard Payne: Yeah, just a second. There you are.
[stabs security guard in the ear with a screwdriver]
Howard Payne: Nothing personal.
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Security Guard: Hey, this area's restricted.
Howard Payne: Oh, hi. Yeah, I know. They called me down here. Some of this wiring got screwed up.
Security Guard: Nobody called it down to me. I'm going to have to see a work order.
Howard Payne: Yeah, just a second. There you are.
[stabs security guard in the ear with a screwdriver]
Howard Payne: Nothing personal.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: Bait (#3.18)" (2006)
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Soundtrack:
Speed
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Were there people in the plane at the end?Chapter headings, an official version:
Why was Howard Payne so angry?
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Speed is one of my favorite action movies of all time, just a notch below contemporaries like Terminator 2 and Die Hard. The premise is so simple that it's almost a parody of movie pitches (Homer Simpson's line was "I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'."). Fortunately this film came to be much better than the sum of its parts, and it's deservedly remembered as one of the most entertaining films of the 90s.
What distinguishes Speed is its humanity, due in no small part to the character of Annie (Sandra Bullock). The best example of this is the moment when Annie, while driving the bus, thinks she has struck a baby stroller. She becomes so distraught that she lets go of the steering wheel, never mind the fact that she is in charge of driving a bomb-laden bus through the L.A. suburbs. It's one of several moments that draw us into the film by helping us identify with the characters, and it's all the more elegant for its simplicity. This movie isn't complex, but it doesn't claim to be.
There is a certain irony that Speed succeeds so well on a human level, since Jan de Bont is not generally considered an "actor's director". He started as a cinematographer, and even when he talks about directing he discusses technical aspects and seldom mentions working with actors. Nowhere was this more evident than Speed 2, which pretty much killed his directorial career. Given that, it's all the more remarkable what he pulled off in the original Speed, as everything seemed to come together for him.
The overall performances really serve this picture well. Keanu is at his best (which is to say, mediocre), Sandra launched a career based on this movie, and Dennis Hopper did a wonderful job as the sardonic villain. Plus he has one of my favorite bad-guy lines of all time (Traven: "You're crazy." Payne: "Poor people are crazy, Jack. I'm eccentric.").
8/10