Crackerjack (1994)

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Crackerjack is a 1994 Canadian-American action film directed by Michael Mazo, and starring Thomas Ian Griffith, Nastassja Kinski and Christopher Plummer. The setting is the Rocky Mountains. In the film, a troubled widowed cop (Griffith) and a tour guide (Kinski) attempt to prevent a high-stakes robber (Plummer) from burying the mountain hotel hosting a wealthy mobster—whom both cop and robber are after—in an avalanche. The film was part of a wave of 1990s Die Hard imitators, and is often regarded as one of the better-made independent efforts in that subgenre.

Production

Crackerjack was the first produced script, and second overall, from the team of Jonas Quastel and Micheal Bafaro, who had worked in the B.C. film industry in various behind-the-scenes capacities before forming a writing teams four years prior. The finished product stuck close to what the pair had originally envisioned. The film was financed through pre-sales and private investments, without assistance from government subsidies.

Filming began on September 13, 1993, and wrapped up on November 3, apparently delayed from an earlier October 25 date. While loosely inspired by Banff, Alberta, the film's Panorama Springs Resort did not exist and was represented in wide shots by a model, which agglomerated the individual sections visible throughout the film.

The film's visual effects were supervised by Angus Bickerton for British contractor The Magic Camera. Bickerton was present in Canada to make a shot list, but the building and filming of the models took place in London, England. A team of 20 to 25 builders worked on the film's miniatures. Some of them were inserted via split screen to add depth to the original scenes, such as the rooftop fight, which was filmed on a set.

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