Movie
The Contract
Overview
Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.
Details
- Release date
- 2006-04-05
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Emmett/Furla Films, VIP Medienfonds 4, Revelations Entertainment, Millennium Media, Nu Image Entertainment
- Country
- United States of America, Germany
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Morgan Freeman as Frank Carden
- John Cusack as Ray
- Alice Krige as Miles
- Megan Dodds as Sandra
- Corey Johnson as Davis
- Jonathan Hyde as Turner
- Bill Smitrovich as Wainwright
- Anthony Warren as Royko
- Ned Bellamy as Evans
- Thomas Lockyer as Johnson
- Gary Whelan as Stanfield
- Ian Shaw as Michaels
Crew
- Bruce Beresford - Director
- John Darrouzet - Writer
- Stephen Katz - Writer
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