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Basic is a 2003 crime-action thriller film directed by John McTiernan, written by James Vanderbilt, and starring John Travolta, Connie Nielsen and Samuel L. Jackson. It is the second film starring Travolta and Jackson after working on Pulp Fiction. The story follows a DEA agent solving the mystery of a bungled training exercise that leads to ...
Jackson at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con. Samuel L. Jackson is an American actor and film producer. A highly-prolific actor who starred in over 150 film roles to date, Jackson's films have collectively grossed over $27 billion, making him the highest-grossing live-action actor of all time as of 2021. [1] [note 1]
Knight appeared in various films in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including Dirty Dancing (1987), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), JFK (1991) and Basic Instinct (1992). He was the first actor cast in Jurassic Park after director Steven Spielberg saw his performance in Basic Instinct. Knight was cast as InGen Corporation's chief programmer ...
Mitch Pileggi / p ɪ ˈ l ɛ dʒ i / (born April 5, 1952) [1] is an American actor. He played Horace Pinker in Shocker , Walter Skinner on The X-Files , Colonel Steven Caldwell on Stargate Atlantis , Ernest Darby in Sons of Anarchy , and Harris Ryland in the TNT revival of Dallas (2012–2014).
Samuel Leroy Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., on December 21, 1948, [13] the only child of Elizabeth Harriett (née Montgomery) and Roy Henry Jackson. [14] [15] He grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. [13] [16] His father lived away from the family in Kansas City, Missouri, and later died of alcoholism. Jackson met him only twice during his ...
The film mainly spoofs the first three Lethal Weapon films, as well as several others including Basic Instinct, Commando, Die Hard, Dirty Harry, Rambo, The Silence of the Lambs, Wayne's World, 48 Hrs. and TV series such as CHiPs. Loaded Weapon 1 was released on February 5, 1993.
From 1983 to 1987, while with the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, Young created, produced and was a cast member in "Dungeon Master", [3] a fusion of improvisational theatre and live action role-playing; each show was a fantasy adventure scenario with theater cast members playing the monsters and non-player characters and volunteer audience ...
Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir [3] erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. Starring Michael Douglas , Sharon Stone , George Dzundza , Jeanne Tripplehorn , and Wayne Knight , the film follows San Francisco police detective Nick Curran (Douglas) as he investigates the brutal murder of a wealthy rock star.