Breakaway (1990 film)

Breakaway
Directed by	Don McLennan
Written by	Jan Sardi
Produced by	Don McLennan Jane Ballantyne Les Lithgow
Starring	Bruce Boxleitner Bruce Myles Deborah Unger Toni Scanlan Terry Gill
Cinematography	Zbigniew Friedrich
Edited by	Nicolas Lee
Music by	Peter Sullivan
Production company	Breakaway Films
Distributed by	Smart Egg Pictures
Release dates	1 August 1990 (1990-08-01) (Netherlands) October 1990 (1990-10) (Australia)
Running time	85 mins
Countries	Australia United Kingdom
Language	English

Breakaway (also known as Escape from Madness) is a 1990 Australian thriller film[1] starring Bruce Boxleitner, Bruce Myles and Deborah Unger. It is directed by Don McLennan.

Plot

An escaped prisoner abducts an accountant as he tracks a rodeo fair which is sheltering his wife.

Cast

• Bruce Boxleitner as Joey
• Bruce Myles as Reginald
• Deborah Unger as Marion
• Toni Scanlan
• Terry Gill as Hank Stardust
• David Hoflin as Geoffrey
• Tiffany Lamb as Tanya

Production

Filming took place in Victoria, Australia from 31 July – 9 September 1989.

Release

The film was released on video on a dubbed VHS in Germany by Highlight Video, on a Dutch-Subtitled VHS in the Netherlands by Excalibur Benelux and in Canada on NTSC VHS by Alliance Releasing. In the United Kingdom, it was released on video as Escape from Madness.

The film has never been released on any format in the United States.

References

1. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p20

External links

• Breakaway at IMDb
• Breakaway (1990) at Ozmovies