Behind Enemy Lines (2001 film)
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| Directed by | John Moore |
| Written by | Jim Thomas, John Thomas(story) David Velos, Zak Penn(screenplay) |
| Produced by | John Davis |
| Starring | Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Vladimir Mashkov, Joaquim de Almeida, David Keith, Olek Krupa |
| Music by | Ryan Adams, Don Davis |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release dates | November 30, 2001 |
| Budget | $40,000,000 |
Behind Enemy Lines is a 2001 film starring Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson.
- Tagline: In war there are some lines you should never cross.
The film is centred around a massacre in the Bosnian war of 1992-1995. Admiral Leslie Reigart's (Hackman) carrier battle group is in the final stages of a NATO peace keeping deployment when the F/A-18F Super Hornet of Chris Burnett (Wilson) and his pilot Jeremy Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) is shot down by renegade Serbian forces leaded by the General Miroslav Lokar (Olek Krupa). Lokar is commiting a secret genocide over the Bosniak people in a no-fly zone that the NATO plane violates and photographs; wanting to be not discovered, Lokar catchs and kills Stackhouse, but Burnett escapes and contacts by radio with the his superiors.
The resulting attempts to rescue the downed aviator are complicated by political considerations which are enforced on Reigart by his NATO commanding officer Admiral Juan Miguel Piquet (Joaquim de Almeida.)
In Bosnia, the lone U.S. pilot attempts to evade Serbian troops and a hired Serb sniper (Vladimir Mashkov). After dodging Serb special forces, mine fields, and tanks, he manages to contact the carrier. After retrieving photographic evidence of the massacres, he is rescued in a dramatic helicopter rescue mission.
The movie is loosely inspired by the experiences of former United States Air Force captain Scott O'Grady, who was shot down on June 2, 1995 over Bosnia. He managed to survive for six days before being rescued.
The film, released by News Corporation company 20th Century Fox, features fictional news reports from Sky News (another News Corp asset.)
The primary actors are not Serbs, and the producers said that they hired croats to instruct them in the Serbo-Croatian language.
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The film is centred around a massacre in the Bosnian war of 1992-1995. Admiral Leslie Reigart's (Hackman) carrier battle group is in the final stages of a NATO peace keeping deployment when the F/A-18F Super Hornet of Chris Burnett (Wilson) and his pilot Jeremy Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) is shot down by renegade Serbian forces leaded by the General Miroslav Lokar (Olek Krupa). Lokar is commiting a secret genocide over the Bosniak people in a no-fly zone that the NATO plane violates and photographs; wanting to be not discovered, Lokar catchs and kills Stackhouse, but Burnett escapes and contacts by radio with the his superiors.
The resulting attempts to rescue the downed aviator are complicated by political considerations which are enforced on Reigart by his NATO commanding officer Admiral Juan Miguel Piquet (Joaquim de Almeida.)
In Bosnia, the lone U.S. pilot attempts to evade Serbian troops and a hired Serb sniper (Vladimir Mashkov). After dodging Serb special forces, mine fields, and tanks, he manages to contact the carrier. After retrieving photographic evidence of the massacres, he is rescued in a dramatic helicopter rescue mission.
The movie is loosely inspired by the experiences of former United States Air Force captain Scott O'Grady, who was shot down on June 2, 1995 over Bosnia. He managed to survive for six days before being rescued.
The film, released by News Corporation company 20th Century Fox, features fictional news reports from Sky News (another News Corp asset.)
The primary actors are not Serbs, and the producers said that they hired Croats to instruct them in the Serbo-Croatian language.