Broken Arrow
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Directed by	John Woo
Produced by	Bill Badalato Terence Chang Mark Gordon
Written by	Graham Yost
Starring	Christian Slater John Travolta Samantha Mathis
Music by	Hans Zimmer
Editing by	Joe Hutshing
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	February 9, 1996
Running time	108 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$55 million (estimated)
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Plot

Major Vic 'Deak' Deakins (John Travolta) and Captain Riley Hale (Christian Slater) are pilots in the United States Air Force. The film begins with a boxing match between the two, where Hale is knocked out by Deakins. After the match Hale gives the bet money of the match back to Deakins saying he had stolen it from his wallet. Later both the pilots are assigned to a top secret exercise on a B3 Stealth Bomber with two nuclear missiles onboard. Deakins and Hale take off from Whiteman Air Force Base in the Bomber (a fictional advanced version of the actual B-2 Spirit stealth bomber) carrying the two live nuclear weapons on an evening exercise over Utah. John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer, and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction. ... Christian Slater(born August 18, 1969) is an American actor. ... “The U.S. Air Force” redirects here. ... Location of Whiteman AFB, Missouri. ... The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is a multi-role stealth heavy bomber, capable of deploying both conventional and nuclear weapons. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter A nuclear weapon derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fusion or fission. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

After successfully evading the radar of the airforce base during the exercise, Deakins has a friendly chat during which he distracts Hale to check their portside window. At this point, he draws his gun to shoot Hale. A combat ensued onboard the plane and Deakins successfully manages to safe-drop the nukes from the plane after ejecting Hale. When the airforce base regains radar contact with the plane, Deakins reports that "Hale's lost it. I'm bailing out" and ejects leaving the plane to crash on the mountain side over the Utah canyons.

Meanwhile, a Special Forces team is sent to recover the nukes. They do not find the nukes onboard the plane and report a "Broken Arrow" (a situation where nuclear missiles are missing). The team is later killed while recovering the nukes in a canyon by rogue mercenaries led by Deakins. Deakins plans to sell the nukes on the black market to prospective terrorists.

Hale is alive is found by Park Ranger Terry, whom he convinces after a standoff to help him track down Deakins and foil his plot. From here the plot thickens with Hale fighting Deakins inside an abondoned mine shaft. One of the nukes set off by Deakins explodes, but the blast is contained by the millions of tons of rock above the underground shaft. Hale and Terry survive. Later, Terry and Hale trackdown Deakins to a motor boat to be used for transporting the nukes. Terry hides in the boat and as the mercenaries ride away in it.

Hale deciphers that Deakins is transporting the nukes onboard a train and sets off in a helicopter to find the rogue train. Onboard the train, a gunfight ensues between Hale, Terry and Deakins' henchmen. The train is set on fire when the one of the bullets hits a fuel barrel during the gunfight. Finally, Hale faces off against Deakins in hand-to-hand combat. After leaving Deakins presumably out cold, he leaps out of the train with a remote and turns off the timer on the nuke which was set to blow off by Deakins, before the fight. At the same instant, a detached bogey comes slamming into the bogey where the fight had ensued. Due to the impact from the collision, the disarmed nuke flies into Deakins and the entire train explodes.

Hale who survived finds a 20 Dollar note fluttering on a twig in the grass (The same 20 Dollar note he had stolen from Deakins). He then finds terry and they introduce each other. The credits roll.

Box office

Broken Arrow had a domestic gross of US$ 70,770,147 and an international gross of $79,500,000, for a total worldwide gross of $150,270,147[1]. USD redirects here. ... USD redirects here. ... USD redirects here. ...

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