Wedlock (film)

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Wedlock
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Written by Broderick Miller
Directed by Lewis Teague
Starring Rutger Hauer
Mimi Rogers
James Remar
Joan Chen
Stephen Tobolowsky
Grand L. Bush
Music by Richard Gibbs
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersFrederick S. Pierce
Michael Jaffe
Producer Branko Lustig
Cinematography Dietrich Lohmann
EditorCarl Cress
Running time100 minutes
Original release
Network HBO
ReleaseDecember 10, 1991 (1991-12-10)

Wedlock is a 1991 American science fiction-action television film from HBO Pictures, directed by Lewis Teague and starring Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen, and James Remar. It received an Emmy Nomination for Sound Editing.

Contents

The film follows a diamond thief sent to a prison which uses new technology linked explosive neck collars to keep its prisoners from escaping. After learning who his collar is linked to, they escape but the police pursuing them and those who want the diamonds are a constant threat.

Synopsis

After stealing diamonds in a robbery, diamond thief Frank Warren is betrayed by his best friend Sam and his fiancée Noelle, who turns him in to the authorities. Frank is sentenced to 12 years imprisonment at Camp Holliday, an experimental prison where each convict is fitted with an electronic collar containing an explosive device which is electronically connected to another inmate. If any inmate tries to escape from Camp Holliday, or is even just separated from their collar-mate by more than 100 yards, both their collars will explode. Frank learns the inmate he is connected to is Tracy Riggs, and Tracy and Frank both escape with their collars intact. On the run from the authorities, Frank and Tracy find they are being pursued by Sam and Noelle, believing Frank will lead them to the hidden diamonds. It is up to Frank and Tracy get to the diamonds without separating from each other by more than 100 yards.

Cast

Production

Wedlock was filmed in and around Los Angeles, California from November 6 to December 19 in 1990 at various locations including Terminal Island (for the port scenes and the abandoned nuclear power site), the LA River, Downtown, the Old Zoo (Griffith Park, for the sleep in the cave scene), Brandeis-Bardin Institute in Simi Valley (used for exterior shots of the prison) and Southern California. [1]

It was shot in a 1.85:1 widescreen format on 35mm film and shown on HBO in a letterboxed format for 4:3 aspect ratio television screens from December 10, 1991. [2]

DVD release

Xenon Entertainment released the film onto DVD in 2004. The film is only available in fullscreen (as it was made-for-television and aired on HBO), although widescreen versions have been made available on DVD in the United Kingdom and Australia.

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