Half Past Dead
Half Past Dead is a 2002 American action film written and directed by Don Michael Paul in his directorial debut, and produced by Steven Seagal, who also starred in the lead role, alongside Andrew Stevens and Elie Samaha. The film co-stars Morris Chestnut, Ja Rule, Tony Plana, Kurupt, and Nia Peeples. The film tells the story of a criminal who infiltrates a prison to interrogate a prisoner about the location of a fortune in gold while an undercover FBI agent has to stop him. Distribution and copyrights were held by Columbia Pictures. Half Past Dead was released on November 15, 2002 by Screen Gems. The film grossed $19 million worldwide against its budget of $25 million.
Plot
In San Francisco, FBI agent Sasha Petrosevitch (Steven Seagal) goes undercover as a Russian car thief and is brought in by criminal Nick Frazier (Ja Rule) to work for crime boss Sonny Eckvall (Richard Bremmer), who apparently shot and killed Sasha's wife. After some time, FBI Special Agent Ellen "E. Z." Williams (Claudia Christian) and her team show up to nail Nick, but things go wrong, and Sasha gets shot.
Cast
- Alexandra Kamp
- Art Camacho
- Bruce Weitz
- Claudia Christian
- Don Michael Paul
- Hannes Jaenicke
- Ja Rule
- Kurupt
- Linda Thorson
- Matt Battaglia
- Michael McGrady
- Michael Taliferro
- Mike Möller
- Mo'Nique
- Morris Chestnut
- Nia Peeples
- Rainer Werner
- Richard Bremmer
- Ross King
- Stephen J. Cannell
- Steven Seagal
- Tony Plana
- Yasmina Filali
More details
| author | Don Michael Paul |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Berlin San Francisco |
| director | Don Michael Paul |
| editor | Vanick Moradian |
| events | terrorism |
| genre | action |
| keywords | car thief condemn crime boss death row electric chair fbi agent firing squad gas chamber hang kill lethal injection shoot special agent supreme court justice true identity |
| musicBy | Tyler Bates |
| producer | Andrew Stevens Elie Samaha Steven Seagal |
| productionCompany | Franchise Pictures |
| publisher | AFI Catalog of Feature Films Screen Gems Sony Pictures Releasing |
| theme | gangster prison race and ethnicity terrorism |