Demolition Man is a 1993 American science fiction action film directed by Marco Brambilla, and starring Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes. Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, and Denis Leary co-star. The film tells the story of two men – one, an evil crime lord; the other, a risk-taking police officer — who are cryogenically frozen in the year 1996 and reawakened in 2032. Following a massive earthquake in 2010 that destroyed much of Los Angeles, it merged with San Diego to form a planned city called San Angeles in which all crime has seemingly been eliminated from mainstream... society. Some aspects of the film allude to Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, Brave New World. In 1996, Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant John Spartan leads a raid to save captured victims from the violent criminal Simon Phoenix. After Spartan scans the building for heat signatures and finds only eight – those of Phoenix's lackeys – he determines that the hostages are not in the building and attempts to capture Phoenix. Spartan corners Phoenix, who detonates explosives. As Phoenix is arrested, he accuses Spartan of having set off the explosives and killing the hostages.
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| Release date: | October 7, 1993 |
| Directed by: | Marco Brambilla |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 115 Minutes |
| Producer: | Howard Kazanjian, Joel Silver, Michael Levy |
| Editor: | Stuart Baird |
| Music by: | Elliot Goldenthal |
| Cinematography: | Alex Thomson |
| Screenplay by: | Peter Lenkov, Daniel Waters, Robert Reneau |
| Estimated budget: | $57,000,000 |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Action, Thriller |