Fifty/Fifty

Fifty/Fifty (1993)

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Two bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.

Date of release
1993-02-26
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Action, Comedy
Director
Charles Martin Smith

Casting

Interesting facts

Fifty/Fifty is a 1992 American action adventure comedy film. It stars Peter Weller and Robert Hays as two operatives who form a begrudging alliance to overthrow a Southeast Asian dictator on behalf of the CIA, and find friendship, love and a political conscience along the way. The film is directed by Charles Martin Smith, who also has a supporting role.

Production

Sylvester Stallone had previously been in talks to co-star in Fifty/Fifty for Paramount Pictures, first with Eddie Murphy around 1983, and later with Kurt Russell. The pair eventually chose to make Tango and Cash instead. Meanwhile, writer Dennis Shryack collaborated to two Chuck Norris vehicles for producer Raymond Wagner, Code of Silence and Hero and the Terror, the later made at Cannon Films.

The film was primarily filmed in the Malaysian state of Penang, which represents the fictional nation of Tengara (pronounced as Tenggara, the Malay word for "southeast"), and its cast boasts a variety of local mainstays. The epilogue was shot in Rome, Italy. Some sources mention Sri Lanka as an additional location. According to Robert Hays, the two actors got along well, and both were attracted to the film's mix of action and levity.

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