Daylight
Daylight is a 1996 American action thriller film directed by Rob Cohen and starring Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, Stan Shaw, Jay O. Sanders, Karen Young and Danielle Harris. The film was released by Universal Pictures on December 6, 1996, in the United States, and on December 26 in the United Kingdom.
Plot
In upstate New York, a waste management firm loads barrels of toxic waste onto trucks, intending to illegally dispose of them at a site in New Jersey. They are shown heading into the Holland Tunnel along with several commuters, including struggling playwright Maddy Thompson (Amy Brenneman), a bus of juvenile offenders, a vacationing family, an elderly couple with a dog, and sporting goods retailer Roy Nord (Viggo Mortensen). Meanwhile, a gang of robbers grabs gems from a gem buyer after mugging him and takes his car to escape the NYPD by racing into the tunnel. The gang force their way through the north tube traffic, where the driver loses control, smashing though a security booth and into one of the trucks, causing it to detonate, and resulting in a sympathetic detonation of the remaining trucks. The tunnel entrances cave in, and a devastating fireball sweeps through the tunnel, incinerating the majority of the motorists within it.
More details
| author | Leslie Bohem |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New Jersey New York City |
| director | Rob Cohen |
| editor | Peter Amundson |
| genre | action thriller |
| keywords | blow out broken neck cave in crush elderly couple holland tunnel how to hypothermia kill mug nypd pass police officer rid river run sleep stretcher struggling playwright submerge swim sympathetic detonation taxi driver their way toxic waste trap upstate new york warn |
| musicBy | Randy Edelman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Sound Editing |
| producer | David T. Friendly John Davis Joseph M. Singer |
| productionCompany | AFI Catalog of Feature Films Davis Entertainment |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | New Jersey |
| theme | disaster race |