Metro

Metro

Metro is a 1997 action/suspense comedy film directed by Thomas Carter and starring Eddie Murphy and Michael Wincott. Murphy plays a hostage negotiator in San Francisco. He seeks revenge when his best friend is murdered by an escaped jewel-thief . Scott Roper is the best hostage negotiator in San Francisco. His girlfriend Veronica "Ronnie" Tate is a newspaper reporter. While listening to a horse race on his car stereo, Scott is called downtown where a man named Earl is holding 17 hostages in a bank. Scott rescues the hostages by shooting Earl. Scott is then assigned a partner –...
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Release date:1997
Directed by:Thomas Carter
Rated:R (USA)
Runtime:117 Minutes
Producer:Roger Birnbaum
Editor:Peter E. Berger, John Wright
Music by:Steve Porcaro
Cinematography:Fred Murphy
Screenplay by:Randy Feldman
Estimated budget:$55,000,000
Genre:Thriller, Comedy, Action

Cast of Metro

Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy
Insp. Scott Roper
Born:April 3, 1961
Age:51
Michael Rapaport
Michael Rapaport
Kevin McCall
Born:March 20, 1970
Age:42
Donal Logue
Donal Logue
Earl
Born:February 27, 1966
Age:46
Michael Wincott
Michael Wincott
Michael Korda
Born:January 21, 1958
Age:54
Paul Ben-Victor
Paul Ben-Victor
Clarence Teal
Born:July 24, 1965
Age:46
Art Evans
Art Evans
Lt. Sam Baffett
Born:March 27, 1942
Age:70

Film director of Metro

Thomas Carter
Thomas Carter
Born: July 17, 1953
Age: 58

Thomas Carter is an American film and television director known for Swing Kids, Save the Last Dance with Julia Stiles, and Coach Carter with Samuel L. Jackson. As an actor, Carter is probably best known for his work on the television series The White Shadow, playing James "Hollywood" Hayward, a...
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Music contributors for Metro

Steve Porcaro
Steve Porcaro

Steven Maxwell "Steve" Porcaro is an American keyboardist and composer, who was an original member of the rock/pop band Toto. Porcaro wrote or...
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Filming locations for Metro

San Francisco
San Francisco

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.6 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area...
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