Rumble in the Bronx (1995) on Netflix
Keung flies to the Bronx for his Uncle Bill's wedding and minds the market while the newlyweds are away. A biker gang that targets the store turns its attention to him.
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Plot summary
Ma Hon Keung, a police officer from Hong Kong, flies to New York for the wedding of his Uncle Bill, who runs a market in the Bronx. Bill has sold the store to Elaine and leaves on his honeymoon, so Keung stays on to help her behind the counter. The neighborhood biker gang races its motorcycles outside Bill's apartment, and Keung drives the riders off; when they try to rob the market, he fights them away and becomes their target. Nancy, the girlfriend of the gang's leader Tony, lives nearby with her younger brother Danny, a boy in a wheelchair who takes to Keung. A gang member's involvement in a stolen diamond deal brings a crime syndicate into the neighborhood.
Cast
- Chan Man-Chingas Tony's Gang Member
- Fred Andruccias Tony's Gang Member
- Mark Antoniukas Tony's Gang Member
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
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- Jackie Chan broke his right ankle performing a stunt during the shoot and spent much of the remaining filming with one foot in a cast; for the film's climax, the crew dyed a sock to match the shoe on his good foot and Chan wore it over the cast.
- Rumble in the Bronx is set in New York but was filmed in Vancouver, so the crew put up fake graffiti each day and took it all down each evening, while also making sure no mountains showed in the background.
- Rumble in the Bronx was the first Chinese film to be released at the same time in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
- For the international version, New Line Cinema threw out Chan's closing-credits song and replaced it with "Kung Fu" by the band Ash, whose lyrics name Jackie Chan along with other Asian figures familiar in the West.
- Rumble in the Bronx was the most profitable film of 1996, with its North American box office alone taking in more than six times its $13 million budget.
- New Line Cinema's dubbed and re-edited American version of Rumble in the Bronx became Jackie Chan's mainstream breakthrough in North America.
