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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Not For Children Movie Release: 1995 DVD Release: 12/10/1997 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 51 mins Studio: Universal Studios Total Copies: 2 Genres: Action, Action Thriller

Pittsburgh Penguins owner Howard Baldwin was the producer of Sudden Death, and the action is set in his hockey arena, in which the Penguins are playing the Chicago Blackhawks. Pittsburgh fire inspector Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is attending the game with his two children. He's quit fighting fires because of a tragedy a few years earlier involving a child he couldn't save. Also at the game is the vice-president of the United States (Raymond Barry), who is the target of a terrorist plot. The terrorist leader, an insane ex-CIA agent named Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe), has masterminded a scheme to hold the vice-president hostage in his luxury suite while demanding that payments be transferred to his account electronically at the end of each period of the game. If he doesn't get his money, he will kill one member of the vice-president's party at the end of each period, and at game's end he will order ten bombs hidden in the arena to be detonated with all 17,000 fans present. McCord discovers the plot while his daughter Emily (Whittni Wright) is kidnapped by the terrorists too. McCord must dispatch the villains and find the bombs, while saving all the hostages. Luckily, he is adept at martial arts. He fights one henchman dressed in a Penguins mascot outfit in the arena's kitchen, and another terrorist on the arena's retracting dome. At one point, McCord switches identities with a player, is sent into the game, and scores a goal. Director Peter Hyams also directed Van Damme in the blockbuster Timecop. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide

Jean-Claude Van Damme - Darren McCord
Powers Boothe - Joshua Foss
Raymond J. Barry - Vice President
Whittni Wright - Emily McCord
Ross Malinger - Tyler McCord

A Stanley Cup showdown turns into a tense standoff with terrorrists in Universal Studios Home Video's release of Peter Hyams's Sudden Death. Presented in 1.33:1 full frame and offering audio rendered in English Dolby Digital 5.1, alternate French and Spanish soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Surround Sound with optional Spanish subtitles. Extra features include production notes, talent biographies, film highlights and theatrical trailers. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide