Cliffhanger Movie

Cliffhanger
Rating:
Run Time: 113 min
MPAA Rating: R
Released: 1993
Directors: Renny Harlin
Genre/Type: Action
Action Thriller
Producers: Alan Marshall
Renny Harlin
Lynwood Spinks
Plot Synopsis by Paul Brenner
In Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone plays Gabe Walker, a member of a mountain-climbing rescue team. Gabe is haunted by an incident from his past when he couldn't save the girlfriend of his best friend, Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker), from falling to her death. As the story begins, Gabe has left mountain-climbing rescue work and has set up business in Denver. He returns to the mountain rescue office to persuade his lover, Jessie (Janine Turner), to quit and come back to Denver with him. While he is begging Jessie to head out to Denver, things are happening in the skies overhead. A gang of professional crooks headed by psychotic Eric Qualen (John Lithgow) has hijacked a U.S. Treasury plane carrying millions of dollars. But the plane crashes, and the bad guys find themselves stranded on top of a mountain with the money (put into three cases) scattered around the wreckage and with no way to get down off the pinnacle to retrieve the cases. They put in a phony distress call that is received by the mountain rescue team. Gabe agrees to take part in one last rescue attempt, and they head up to help rescue the thieves. But Qualen has plans for the rescuers -- to force them to climb through the dangerous snow-covered peaks to find the three suitcases of cash.

Back to the top Images of Cliffhanger

Popular Products on Cliffhanger

Videos of Cliffhanger

Back to the top Top Questions about Cliffhanger

Prix were awarded points. Expanding the points to the top 8 did little to slow down the Michael Schumacher express, but it did create more interesting F1 title races about half the time since then... Blog Entry Conversation | October 23, 20...
First we need to define our terms. Some people define a cliffhanger as any ending that leaves some element of the story hanging--whether that's a choice the player characters (PCs) have to make, the outcome of an event, and so on. The dic...
In the Renny Harlin -directed original, Stallone played a park ranger who is forced help a group of terrorits recover three suitcases containing $100 million lost in the Rocky Mountains. A huge hit for Sly, it grossed $255 million worldwide...
1 2 »

Cast

Actors Character Born
Sylvester Stallone Gabe Walker Jul 6, 1946 in New York City, NY
John Lithgow Eric Qualen Oct 19, 1945 in Rochester, NY
Michael Rooker Hal Tucker Apr 6, 1955 in Jasper, AL
Janine Turner Jessie Deighan Dec 6, 1962 in Lincoln, NE
Rex Linn Travers
Caroline Goodall Kristel
Leon Kynette
Paul Winfield Walter Wright May 22, 1941 in Watts, Los Angeles, CA
Ralph Waite Frank Jun 22, 1928 in White Plains, NY
Craig Fairbrass Delmar
Denis Forest Heldon
Michelle Joyner Sarah
Max Perlich Evan Mar 28, 1968 in Cleveland, OH
Gregory Scott Cummins Ryan
Scott Hoxby Agent Hayes
John Finn Agent Michaels
1 2 »

Back to the topReview

Not yet reviewed
Table of Contents
Plot
Images
Products
Videos
Top Questions
Cast
Review