The Prince of Pennsylvania is a 1988

1988 in film

-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:* Act of Piracy* Action Jackson, starring Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen* Akira* Alice...

 comedic drama

Comedy-drama

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 starring Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves

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, Bonnie Bedelia

Bonnie Bedelia

Bonnie Bedelia Culkin is an American actress best known for her supporting roles in the action film Die Hard and the courtroom drama Presumed Innocent...

, Fred Ward

Fred Ward

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, and Amy Madigan

Amy Madigan

Amy Marie Madigan is an American actress who is known for her role as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams and Iris Crowe in the HBO television series Carnivale...

. The Academy Award

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-nominated composer Thomas Newman

Thomas Newman

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 wrote the music. It was filmed in and around Pittsburgh.

Plot

Rupert Marshetta and his accomplice and lover Carla kidnap Rupert's father to gain access to family money, but nobody in the family wants his father back. They find out that his father has already sold the land without the knowledge of his family. The police arrest Pam, but they cannot find Rupert and his father. He takes his father to the mine, where police find them before he fits an explosive device to break open the portable toilet where he thinks his father has hidden the money. Everybody escapes the explosion.

Cast

• Bonnie Bedelia
  Bonnie Bedelia
  Bonnie Bedelia Culkin is an American actress best known for her supporting roles in the action film Die Hard and the courtroom drama Presumed Innocent...
  
  
• Keanu Reeves
  Keanu Reeves
  Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Reeves is perhaps best known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Point Break and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix...
  
  
• Amy Madigan
  Amy Madigan
  Amy Marie Madigan is an American actress who is known for her role as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams and Iris Crowe in the HBO television series Carnivale...
  
  
• Fred Ward
  Fred Ward
  Freddie Joe "Fred" Ward is an American actor. He began his career in 1979 alongside Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz. He is best known for his starring roles in the motion pictures Remo Williams, Tremors, Henry & June, Short Cuts, The Right Stuff and Exit Speed...
  
  
• Demetria Mellot
• Linda Carola
• Jeff Forman
• Jeff Hayenga
  Jeff Hayenga
  Jeff Hayenga is an American actor, who played against Matthew Modine in And the Band Played On, Danny DeVito in Other People's Money, Fred Ward in The Prince of Pennsylvania and Claire Forlani in Memro . Another role he had in the motion picture Center Stage .- External links :...
  
  
• Dan Monahan
  Dan Monahan
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• Don Brockett
  Don Brockett
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• Jay O. Sanders
  Jay O. Sanders
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• Kari Keegan
  Kari Keegan
  Kari Keegan is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her lead role in the horror movie Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday . She appeared in an uncredited part in Jerry Maguire and as the lead role in the independent film Mind Games . She has been married since 1998 to Craig...
  
  

Crew

• Directed by
• Ron Nyswaner
  Ron Nyswaner
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• Produced by
• Joan Fishman .... producer
• Kerry Orent .... producer
• Original Music by
• Thomas Newman
  Thomas Newman
  Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer and conductor, best known for his many film scores. He is one of the more respected and recognized composers for modern film and has scored over fifty feature films in a career which spans nearly three decades.Newman has received a total of ten...
  
  
• Cinematography by
• Frank Prinzi
  Frank Prinzi
  Frank Prinzi is an Emmy Award-winning American cinematographer and a television director. He earned his degree from New York University.- Selected cinematography credits :*The Brother from Another Planet *She's Gotta Have It...
  
  
• Film Editing by
• William S. Scharf
• Production Design by
• Toby Corbett
• Art Direction by
• Steve Arnold
  Steve Arnold
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• Costume Design by
• Carol Wood
  Carol Wood
  Carol Wood is a current councilwoman-at-large for the City of Lansing, MI having been elected for the At-Large position in November 1999, two years after an unsuccessful campaign for the 4th Ward in 1997....
  
  
• Production Management
• Mary McLaglen .... production manager
• Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
• Mike Topoozian .... first assistant director
• Sound Department
• Allan Byer .... sound mixer
• Jeffrey J. Haboush .... sound re-recording mixer
• Peter F. Kurland .... boom operator
• Linda Moss .... sound editor
• Greg P. Russell .... sound re-recording mixer
• Bruce Stubblefield .... dialogue editor
• Stunts
• John Branagan .... stunt coordinator
• Todd Bryant
  Todd Bryant
  Todd Bryant is an American actor and stuntman who is perhaps most notable for having appeared in three Star Trek movies. He played one of the engineering cadets in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the part of Klingon Captain Klaa in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and the Klingon courtroom...
  
   .... stunts
• Other crew
• Jim Denny .... camera operator
• Scott MacDonough .... unit publicist
• Frank McGough .... set lighting technician
• John S. Moyer .... grip