Sudden Death
Release: December 22, 1995

"Terror goes into overtime." as the action is set in a hockey arena, in which the Pittsburgh Penguins are playing the Chicago Blackhawks, as part of the NHL season. Pittsburgh fire inspector Darren McCord is attending the game with his two children. He quit fighting fires because of a tragedy a few years earlier involving a child he couldn't save. Also at the game is the vice-president of the United States, who is the target of a terrorist plot. The terrorist leader, an insane ex-CIA agent named Joshua Foss, has masterminded a scheme to hold the vice-president hostage in his luxury suite while demanding that payments be transferred to his account electronically at the end of each period of the game. If he doesn't get his money, he will kill one member of the vice-president's party at the end of each period, and at game's end he will order ten bombs hidden in the arena to be detonated with all 17,000 fans present. McCord discovers the plot while his daughter Emily is kidnapped by the terrorists too. McCord must dispatch the villains and find the bombs, while saving all the hostages. Luckily, he is adept at martial arts. He fights one henchman dressed in a Penguins mascot outfit in the arena's kitchen, and another terrorist on the arena's retracting dome. At one point, McCord switches identities with a player, is sent into the game, and scores a goal. Jean-Claude van Damme leads; co-starring Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry, and Dorian Harewood as Hallmark. Peter Hyams directs and photographs from the screenplay by Gene Quintano; Based on an original story by Karen Baldwin. Produced by Moshe Diamant and Penguins owner Howard Baldwin; Executive Producers: Ash R. & Sundip R. & Sunil R. Shah and Anders P. Jensen. Music Composed and Conducted by John Debney • Soundtrack on Varése Sarabande. a Signature/Baldwin Cohen production, with Imperial Entertainment , for Universal Pictures. Approved [#33922]/rated R for a substantial amount of strong violence, and for language

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Quotes
Darren McCord: "I'm having a real bad day."
Play-by-Play Announcer: "Oh, scratch my back with a hacksaw!!!!!!"
Coach: "You feeling better? (McCord as goalie Tolliver nods yes)"
Coach: "Then get the f*** in there."
Andrew: "If you hurt my wife, I'll..."
Thug: "You'll what? Burn my toast?"
Carla: "F***!!! You owe me a Mother's Day card."
Joshua Foss: "What I want is world peace, an end to bigotry, and no more mini-malls."
Joshua Foss: "We pay these idiots to protect you, and they are trying to get you killed. As a taxpayer, I don't think I am getting my money's worth."
Thug: "If they want to see a hockey game so badly, maybe we should put them on ice."
Thug: "The calvary's coming."
Joshua Foss: "Custer was in the calvary. Let them come."
Vice President: "What kind of lunatic are you?"
Joshua Foss: "The best kind."
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