Cliffhanger

Cliffhanger

Summary
-While trying to cross a ledge 4,000 above the ground to a waiting helicopter, Sara, the girlfriend of Gabe Walker's friend Hal, falls to her death from faulty equipment. A year later, Gabe comes back and is asked to go to that same mountain range to rescue a group of "stranded" people. It turns out these "stranded" people are actually criminals and they are looking for 3 heavy cases, each containing $100,000,000 in cash from the US Treasury. Gabe and his friend Hal are then forced to help the criminals find the money

Cast
-Sylvester Stallone: Gabe Walker
-John Lithgow: Eric Qualen
-Michael Rooker: Hal Turner
-Janine Turner: Jessie Deighan
-Rex Linn: Richard Travers
-Caroline Goodall: Kristel
-Leon: Kynette
-Craig Fairbass: Delmar
-Ralph Waite: Frank

Did You Know?
-One of the parachutes the base jumper uses has the Finnish flag as the design. This is a trademark of director Renny Harlin, who is from Finland. In movies he directs, the Finnish flag always makes an appearance
-Sylvester Stallone took on this movie to help him get over his fear of heights
-Despite the movie being set in Colorado, the mountain scenes were filmed in the Cortina d'Ampezzo-Dolomites mountain range in Italy because of their striking resemblance to the Colorado Rockies
-Cliffhanger managed to make it into the Guiness Book of World Records for costliest aerial stunt ever done. It cost $1 million to perform the scene where the money was being transferred in air from one plane to the other

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