Breakaway (1990 film)

Breakaway
Directed by Don McLennan
Produced by Don McLennan
Jane Ballantyne
Les Lithgow
Written by Jan Sardi
Starring Bruce Boxleitner
Bruce Myles
Deborah Unger
Toni Scanlan
Terry Gill
Music by Peter Sullivan
Cinematography Zbigniew Friedrich
Edited by Nicolas Lee
Production
company
Breakaway Films
Distributed by Smart Egg Pictures
Release dates
August 1, 1990 (Netherlands)
October 1990 (Australia)
Running time
85 mins
Country Australia
United Kingdom
Language English

Breakaway is a 1990 Australian film [1] starring Bruce Boxleitner, Bruce Myles and Deborah Unger. It is directed by Don McLennan.

Plot

An escaped prisoner abducts an accountant as he tracks a rodeo fair which is sheltering his wife.

Production

Filming took place in Victoria, Australia from July 31st to September 9th of 1989.

Release

The film was released on video on a dubbed VHS in Germany by Highlight Video, on a Dutch-Subtitled VHS in the Netherlands by Excalibur Benelux and in Canada on NTSC VHS by Alliance Releasing. In the United Kingdom, it was released on video as Escape from Madness.

The film has never been released on any format in the United States.

References

  1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p20

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