The Hurricane Heist
The Hurricane Heist is a 2018 American disaster heist action film directed by Rob Cohen, written by Jeff Dixon and Scott Windhauser, and starring Toby Kebbell, Maggie Grace, Ryan Kwanten, Ralph Ineson, Melissa Bolona, James Cutler, and Ben Cross. It was released in the UK as a Sky Cinema Original Film. The film is about a maintenance worker, his meteorologist brother, and a treasury agent contending with band of rogue treasury agents who plan to use a Category 5 hurricane to cover their tracks of a bank robbery. The film was released on March 9, 2018, received negative reviews and was a box-office bomb, making just $32 million against its estimated $35 million budget.
Plot
In 1992, a category 5 hurricane named "Andrew" hits the town of Gulfport, Alabama. Will and Breeze Rutledge are evacuating from the destructive hurricane with their dad. However, their truck gets stuck after avoiding the toppling tree in front of them, and they are forced to take refuge in a nearby house. While trying to save the truck from blowing away, strong winds blow a water tank and it crushes their father.
More details
author | Jeff Dixon Scott Windhauser |
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contentLocation | Alabama |
director | Rob Cohen |
editor | Niven Howie |
genre | action crime |
keywords | andrew brute-force attack capture detach dominator eye wall federal reserve force hurricane andrew kill loot national weather service srv dominator strand treasury agent weather service |
musicBy | Lorne Balfe |
producer | Christopher Milburn Damiano Tucci Danny Roth Karen Baldwin Mark Damon Moshe Diamant |
productionCompany | Foresight Unlimited Parkside Pictures Tadross Media Group Windfall Productions |
publisher | Entertainment Studios |
theme | disaster heist |