Double Bang

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Double Bang
Directed by Heywood Gould
Written by Heywood Gould
Based onDouble Bang
by Heywood Gould
Produced byAlan B. Bursteen
Michael P. Flannigan
Yoram Pelman
Marc Schaberg
Roee Sharon
Starring William Baldwin
Jon Seda
Adam Baldwin
Elizabeth Mitchell
Richard Portnow
CinematographyDavid Rush Morrison
Edited byJoel Goodman
Music byJohn Leftwich
Distributed by Artisan Entertainment
Release date
  • August 17, 2001 (2001-08-17)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language English
Budget$6 million [1]

Double Bang is an American dramatic film starring William Baldwin, Jon Seda, Adam Baldwin and written and directed by Heywood Gould.

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Plot

A policeman's corrupt partner is killed by a hit man. The policeman gets involved with the criminal gang responsible for the killing in order to seek revenge and to 'bring down' the gang's boss.

Production

In July 1998, it was announced Norah Films’ producer Roee Sharon and writer/director Heywood Gould of Tolmitch Prods. had partnered to form Tolmitch/Norah Films to co-produce a slate of films budgeted under $10 million. [1] The company’s first announced project was an adaptation of Gould’s 1988 novel Double Bang about an honest cop who reluctantly enters the world of corruption and murder when his partner is killed by a small-time mobster. [1] [2]

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References

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  2. "Double Bang" . Retrieved December 20, 2022.