Crackerjack (1994) on Netflix
Jack Wild, a Chicago cop nicknamed Crackerjack, joins his brother and sister-in-law at an isolated resort in the Rocky Mountains. Terrorists under Ivan Getz seize the hotel.
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Plot summary
Jack Wild is a Chicago police officer. His wife and two children were killed while he was investigating organized crime, and he lives with post-traumatic stress disorder. Colleagues call him Crackerjack for his reckless behavior. His older brother Michael and Michael's wife Annie bring him on a family vacation to an isolated resort in the Rocky Mountains, where he arrives by cable car and meets KC, who runs activities there. The terrorist Ivan Getz has forced a kidnapped ice scientist, Oliver Green, to rig the glacier around the resort with bombs.
Cast
- Dorothy Fehras Alex
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Crackerjack (1994)
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- To make the miniature explosions look more realistic, the filmmakers shot the model destruction footage at 100 frames per second, and used a remote-controlled helicopter model composited via blue screen into the crash scene involving Christopher Plummer's stunt double.
- The film's nude scene was not the production's own idea: according to a North American executive it was a contractual requirement added by WorldVision subsidiary Republic Pictures.
