A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
August 15, 1989
Original Title:
Deadly Weapon
Genres:
Science Fiction
Production Companies:
Empire Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: PG-13
Runtime: 90
An experimental gun powered by an atomic reactor is misplaced when the transport carrying it crashes into a river. The weapon soon falls into the hands of a bullied teen named Zeke, who uses it to get even with his persecutors. An army team led by the overzealous Lt. Dalton is sent to recover the weapon before it's unstable reactor overloads and causes a meltdown.
Click each video panel to show or hide.
Although TheMovieDB might provide a key to a YouTube video, there is no guarantee that the video might be present at YouTube.
Art Direction:
John Myhre
Director:
Michael Miner
Director of Photography:
James L. Carter
Editor:
Peter Teschner
King Wilder
Executive Producer:
Charles Band
Original Music Composer:
Guy Moon
Producer:
Peter Manoogian
Production Manager:
Hope Perello
Property Master:
Sean Everett
Screenplay:
Michael Miner
Story:
Michael Miner
George Lafia
Stunts:
Tom Elliott
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.