Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987) on Netflix
Paul Kersey's girlfriend's daughter, Erica Sheldon, dies of a crack overdose in Los Angeles. A tabloid publisher whose daughter died the same way hires him to break the city's drug trade.
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Plot summary
Paul Kersey, an architect in Los Angeles, is dating Karen Sheldon, a reporter with a teenage daughter named Erica. Erica dies of a crack overdose at an arcade. Someone who knows about Kersey's past as a vigilante sends a package and then calls, and Kersey is taken to the mansion of Nathan White, a tabloid publisher. White lost his own daughter to addiction, and he wants Kersey to clear the city of drugs, naming two rival suppliers, Ed Zacharias and the Romero brothers. Kersey takes a few days and then agrees, and White supplies him with weapons and information.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Charles Bronson was offered 4 million dollars to reprise his role, more than half of the film's entire budget, and the temperamental star voiced his displeasure frequently to the writer, Gail Morgan Hickman, during the production.
- Gail Morgan Hickman's first script had Paul Kersey struggling with a crisis of conscience and trying to reconnect with Geri Nichols from Death Wish II, but it was rejected because Jill Ireland, who played her, was battling breast cancer.
- The Bollywood film Mohra is an unofficial remake of Death Wish 4, which marked the seventh collaboration between Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson, after St. Ives, The White Buffalo, Caboblanco, 10 to Midnight, The Evil That Men Do and Murphy's Law.
SPOILER
Writer Gail Morgan Hickman came up with the film's central twist himself: the millionaire who hires Paul Kersey is a drug lord using him to eliminate his own competition.
