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Overview

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6.3/10   9,914 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Laura Ziskin (story) &
Alvin Sargent (story) ...
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Release Date:
2 October 1992 (USA) more
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Tagline:
One selfless act of courage can really mess up your whole day. more
Plot:
A not-so-nice man rescues passengers from a crashed airliner, only to see someone else take credit. full summary | add synopsis
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(8 articles)
New Looney Tunes movie ‘Marvin the Martian’ lands its director
 (From Reel Loop. 22 December 2009, 8:31 AM, PST)

Judd Is A Hollywood Hero
 (From WENN. 12 November 2009, 4:11 AM, PST)

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A cast of great actors in a teasingly great film more (54 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Dustin Hoffman ... Bernie Laplante

Geena Davis ... Gale Gayley

Andy Garcia ... John Bubber

Joan Cusack ... Evelyn
Kevin J. O'Connor ... Chucky
Maury Chaykin ... Winston

Stephen Tobolowsky ... Wallace

Christian Clemenson ... Conklin

Tom Arnold ... Chick
Warren Berlinger ... Judge Goines

Cady Huffman ... Flight Attendant Leslie
Susie Cusack ... Donna O'Day

James Madio ... Joey
Richard Riehle ... Robinson

Daniel Baldwin ... Fireman Denton (as Daniel Leroy Baldwin)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Accidental Hero (UK)
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Runtime:
117 min | Canada:75 min (Family Channel)
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mariah Carey originally recorded her #1 hit single, "Hero," for this movie but the filmmakers did not think the power ballad was a good fit. more
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Revealing mistakes: When Bernie and John are driving in stop and go traffic the car they are in doesn't move, all the cars around inch up and move in reverse through the entire conversation. more
Quotes:
Bubber: So you don't want the credit?
LaPlante: I don't take credit; I'm a cash kind of guy.
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Theme from 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' more

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10 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
A cast of great actors in a teasingly great film, 8 August 2002
9/10
Author: Carol S. Leonard from Oxford, England

With a cast of the best actors of our time and one of the great ironic scripts, second to none in adventure story line, this film is relentlessly powerful. Hoffman, Garcia and Davis misunderstand and misrepresent each other to a fine tease in a magnificent display of the highs and lows of being human in America in the late twentieth century.

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