Downtime | |
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Directed by | Bharat Nalluri |
Produced by | Richard L. Johns |
Written by | Caspar Berry |
Starring |
Paul McGann Susan Lynch |
Edited by | Neil Marshall |
Release date
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1997 |
Running time
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90 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Downtime is a 1997 British film directed by Bharat Nalluri and produced by Richard L. Johns. It stars Paul McGann and Susan Lynch.
Former police psychologist Rob helps to save a young woman Chrissy when she is about to commit suicide by jumping of 21st-story balcony with her 4-year-old son Jake. When he persuades her to go on a date, they are trapped with Jake and old Pat in an elevator because a drunken gang crashed into the elevator's engine room...
Originally Downtime was marketed as the British Action Film, Ken Loach meets Die Hard.