Lionheart (1990 film)
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Lionheart is a 1990 American martial arts film directed by Sheldon Lettich, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Rennard, Harrison Page, Lisa Pelikan and Brian Thompson. It also features the acting debut of Ashley Johnson.[2] Van Damme plays a French Foreign Legionnaire stationed in Africa, who must desert to the United States and enter the underground fighting circuit to raise money for his murdered brother's family.
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Directed by | Sheldon Lettich |
Written by | S. N. Warren Jean-Claude Van Damme Sheldon Lettich |
Produced by | Eric Karson Ash R. Shah |
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Cinematography | Robert C. New |
Edited by | Mark Conte |
Music by | John Scott |
Production companies | Wrong Bet Productions Imperial Entertainment |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $6 million[1] |
Box office | $24 million (domestic)[1] |
The film premiered in France on August 1, 1990, and opened in the U.S. on January 11, 1991.[3] It received lackluster reviews, but marked Van Damme's breakthrough as a theatrical leading man in North America.[4] It was released in the United Kingdom as A.W.O.L: Absent Without Leave, and in Oceania as Wrong Bet, two early titles considered by the producers.[5][6]