Blown Away is a 1994 action film starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones. It was directed by Stephen Hopkins. Ryan Gaerity , an Irish terrorist, escapes from his cell in a castle prison in Northern Ireland. In faraway Boston, meanwhile, Lt. Jimmy Dove is a veteran disposal technician for the police bomb squad. He irritates his captain, partner and everyone else when he plays hero and disarms explosives. Nobody, except for his uncle Max , knows of Jimmy's dark past. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jimmy's actual name is Liam McGivney. He had been friends and partners with... Gaerity, who, unbeknownst to Liam, was a freelance terrorist. After a botched attempt to stop Gaerity led to the bomber's imprisonment and the death of his girlfriend , Liam fled to Boston and became Jimmy Dove. Gaerity comes to Boston to seek vengeance against Jimmy, who is semi-retired but working as an instructor. Gaerity begins taunting his old protégé with threats and his homemade explosives and causing the deaths of Jimmy's colleagues Blanket, Cortez and Rita.
more
| Release date: | July 1, 1994 |
| Directed by: | Stephen Hopkins |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 121 Minutes |
| Producer: | Richard Barton Lewis, Pen Densham, John Watson |
| Music by: | Alan Silvestri |
| Screenplay by: | John Rice, Joe Batteer, Jay Roach |
| Estimated budget: | $50,000,000 |
| Genre: | Action, Thriller |