The Specialist
The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld.
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl.She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers.When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's, is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
- Director
- Luis Llosa
- Worldwide
- $170M
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Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
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May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's, is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
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Box Office & Release
The Specialist returned 3.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $45M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $170M
- Release date
- Oct 7, 1994
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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