This article is about stunt performance. For the plant disease, see stunt (botany).

A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat, or any act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes in theatre or cinema. Stunts are a big part of many action movies. Before computer generated imagery special effects, there was no way of achieving these effects, except by using stunt performers who really would jump from car to car or hang from the edge of a skyscraper.

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	Asylum Stunts (218 words) We are a company of stunt professionals based in Chicago, and we specialize in serving the Midwest. In order to be in peak shape to perform, we run the Asylum Stunts Stunt School, with stunt training 2-4 days a week covering everything from high-falls and fire-burns to fight choreography and cable-work. Asylum Stunts was started by Brian Connelly, Jeff "What about me" Kehoe, Laurie McNeilly, and Domingo Rodriguez (all originally of "The Chicago Stunt Team", run by John Hicks Pearce) with an eye towards focusing on the needs of independent and union film market in the Midwest. Encyclopedia: Stunt work (122 words) A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat, or any act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes in theatre or cinema. Stunts are a big part of many action movies. Before computer generated imagery special effects, there was no way of achieving these effects, except by using stunt performers who really would jump from car to car or hang from the edge of a skyscraper.
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