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The Hit is a 1984 British road crime film directed by Stephen Frears, and starring John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Laura del Sol and Tim Roth in his film debut. It was Stamp's first starring role in over a decade, and Roth won an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
Mar 8, 1985 · The Hit: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Freddie Stuart, Ralph Brown, A.J. Clarke, Terence Stamp. Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Stephen Frears
- 1985-03-08
Jan 24, 2012 · Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. Howev...
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Hit men (John Hurt, Tim Roth) catch a stool pigeon (Terence Stamp) in Spain and take him on a wild ride to Paris.
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- Stephen Frears
- R
- John Hurt
Jan 9, 2012 · The Hit is the sequel to cult favorite Straight Out of Compton, in which Blair Underwood stars as Hen, an up-and-coming record executive whose goal is to bring all rival rap...
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- Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
Jan 29, 2022 · Everything about “The Hit” is archetypal and genre-defining. “The Hit” prefigured John Woo’s “The Killer” and those two 1980s movies reset the template for the genre. And looking at it nearly 40 years later, what stands out is the moment-in-time perfection of it all. Hurt was having his big cinema moment, but this cast ...
Jan 15, 2022 · A low-level gangster is kidnapped by two hitmen who want to kill him for betraying his bosses. The film explores the characters' philosophies on death, duality and fate in a road trip across Spain.
