Sacrifice

Sacrifice (2011)

Drug Ring, Kidnapping, Violence, Police, One Word Title, Female Nudity, Drug Dealer, Hockey Arena

A tough undercover cop inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five year-old sister in his care.

Date of release
2011-04-26
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (68)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Action
Director
Damian Lee

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Ottawa

Sacrifice is a 2011 American/Canadian action thriller film written and directed by Canadian film director Damian Lee, and starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Christian Slater. It was filmed in Ottawa and Ontario. The film was produced by Zed Filmworks based in Ottawa, as well as Styx Productions. This film was released direct-to-video.

Production

The casting of this film was done by Stephanie Gorin and Ilona Smyth, the costume designer was Ton Pascal, and the production designer was Lisa Soper. This film was also executively produced by Jeff Sackman, Darren Bell, and Adrian Love. In this film Kim Coates and Stephanie Gorin were also responsible for co-executive producing.

The production began March 28, 2010 in Ottawa, Ontario on the indie crime film into late April. The reported budget of the film is $6.8 million. Although the film is set in Los Angeles and Toronto, the production team dressed the streets of Ottawa to look more like these cities while making the most of their surroundings.

According to Robert Menzies of the production team "the movie has a lot of religious overtones...it's a no-holds barred action film with lots of interesting themes."

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