Hard Rain (1998) on Netflix
Armored truck driver Tom and his uncle Charlie are collecting deposits in Huntingburg as flooding empties the town. Three million dollars is in the truck, and Jim's gang wants it.
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Plot summary
Tom and his uncle Charlie drive an armored truck through Huntingburg, gathering bank deposits from a town that has been evacuated as the water rises. Three million dollars is aboard when Jim and a gang of armed robbers ambush them. Tom gets away with the bags and hides the cash in a cemetery, then takes shelter in a church, where Karen, who is restoring it, mistakes him for a looter and knocks him out. He comes to in a cell and reports the gang and the money to Sheriff Mike Collins. The sheriff and Chief Deputy Wayne Bryce ride out to investigate, leaving him locked up, while Deputy Phil is told to take Karen out of town.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hard Rain (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The flood-ravaged town in the film is Huntingburg, Indiana, which in reality has no major river or dam nearby; the production also built a $6 million flood set inside a Palmdale, California aircraft hangar where the B-1 Lancer bomber was manufactured.
SPOILER
Morgan Freeman played a criminal meant to die at the end, but after a test audience objected that his character should not die and deserved some of the money, the filmmakers reshot the ending so Freeman's thief survives and walks away with cash.- In a 2024 interview, Minnie Driver alleged a producer told her not to wear a wetsuit under her shirt so her nipples would show on camera; costume designer Kathleen Detoro disputed it, saying wetsuits were supplied to everyone and it was each actor's choice, while a Morgan Freeman representative said he had no memory of it.
- Screenwriter Graham Yost later said the film was conceived simply as a modern-day western, but became so expensive to produce that its focus drifted away from that original idea, even though he felt director Mikael Salomon still did a great job.
