Judgment Night (1993)

Judgment Night (1993)

Taglines: Don’t move, Don’t whisper, Don’t even breathe.

Judgment Night movie storyline. Francis (Frank) Wyatt (Emilio Estevez), along with his brother John (Stephen Dorff) and friend Mike Peterson (Cuba Gooding Jr.) set out to see a professional boxing match in Chicago with their friend Ray Cochran (Jeremy Piven), who is testing out a lavish RV.

Stuck in traffic, Ray decides to make up for lost time by exiting the expressway and search out a shortcut through a poor residential neighborhood. The four friends are alarmed when they hit a man named Teddy (Michael DeLorenzo), who they take into the RV. They find that he has been shot, and that he has a paper bag filled with money. The group sees a police car and begins pursuing it.

They are unable to catch up and their RV is side-swiped by a Cadillac. The impact forces them into a narrow alleyway, leaving the RV stuck between two brick walls and unable to start. Moments later, three unknown men shatter the back window and drag Teddy out. Still inside the RV, the four friends witness gang leader Fallon (Denis Leary) shoot and kill Teddy. Fallon reminds the gang that policy is to leave no witnesses. As the criminals approach the RV, Frank sets it on fire, and all four escape through the front window.

Judgment Night (1993)

The four friends hide and try to outrun the gang until they think they have gotten away. They head to a railyard, followed by Fallon and his gang. While hiding inside the car of an old train, Frank and his friends are blackmailed by homeless men living in the train, who threaten to alert their pursuers to their location unless they pay them.

The friends comply, but one of the homeless men freaks out when Mike won’t give him his jacket. Fallon and his gang are leaving the railyard when they hear shouting coming from the railcar. As they open the car everyone aboard jumps off and starts running. Fallon accidentally shoots a homeless guy (who he thought was Mike by the jacket), but recovers Frank’s wallet and now knows where he lives.

Judgment Night is a 1993 American action thriller film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy Piven and Stephen Dorff as a group of friends on the run from a gang of drug dealers (led by Denis Leary) after they witness a murder. The film was released on DVD on January 20, 2004.

Judgment Night Movie Poster (1993)

Judgment Night (1993)

Directed by: Stephen Hopkins
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven, Peter Greene, Michael Wiseman, Erik Schrody, Christine Harnos, Angela Alvarado
Screenplay by: Lewis Colick
Production Design by: Joseph C. Nemec
Cinematography by: Peter Levy
Film Editing by: Tim Wellburn
Costume Design by: Marilyn Vance
Set Decoration by: John M. Dwyer
Art Direction by: Dan Olexiewicz
Music by: Alan Silvestri
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and brutality, and for language.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: October 15, 1993

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