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Executive Decision
''Executive Decision'' is a 1996 American action film directed by Stuart Baird in his directorial debut. The film stars Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Oliver Platt, Joe Morton, David Suchet, and B.D. Wong. It depicts the rescue of an airliner hijacked by terrorists, by a small team placed on the plane in mid-flight. The film was released in the United States on March 15, 1996 and grossed $122 million against a $55 million budget. Plot Lieutenant Colonel Austin Travis leads an unsuccessful Special Forces black ops raid on a Chechen mafia safe house in Trieste, Italy, to recover a stolen Soviet nerve agent, DZ-5. Three months later, Oceanic Airlines Flight 343, a Boeing 747-200, leaves Athens bound for Washington, D.C., with over 400 passengers aboard including Nagi Hassan, lieutenant of the imprisoned terrorist leader El Sayed Jaffa. Hassan and his men hijack the flight, demanding Jaffa's release. Meanwhile, just moments before the hijacking, a suic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Baird
Stuart Baird (born 14 January 1947) is an English film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with action films. He has edited over thirty major motion pictures. Life and career Baird has had an extended collaboration with director Richard Donner. For Baird's work on '' Superman'' in 1978, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing. He received another nomination for editing ''Gorillas in the Mist'' (1988). Prior to his working relationship with Richard Donner, Baird worked as assistant director and assistant editor on different projects before editing Ken Russell's ''Tommy''. Baird worked with Russell on five major motion pictures. He edited ''Tommy'', '' Lisztomania'', and ''Valentino'' and served as associate producer on Ken Russell's ''Altered States''. He also worked as assistant editor on Russell's '' The Devils'', (1971). After his Oscar-nominated work on ''Gorillas in the Mist'' in 1988 and his work with Richard Donner on ''Lethal We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |