Highpoint

Highpoint (1984)

James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets caught up in the intrigue, and must try to recover the money, while saving the beautiful Lise Hatcher (hopefully for himself).

Date of release
1984-08-31
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Comedy, Action, Thriller
Director
Peter Carter

Casting

Interesting facts

Highpoint is a Canadian 1982 action comedy-thriller film directed by Peter Carter and starring Richard Harris, Christopher Plummer and Beverly D'Angelo.

Production

The film was based on a script by Richard Guttman, who was a partner in a Hollywood public relations film. It was originally to star Richard Harris and Katherine Ross. Ross was replaced by Beverly D'Angelo.

Filming started 30 July 1979. The film was financed by Canadian money, raised under tax concessions which led to the Canadian film boom at the time.

The film was reportedly so bad that another $2 million was spent on re-editing.

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