Summaries

A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.

Jack Mason (Ice-T), who lives on the streets, wants to cease his life when on the same day his two best friends die: his dog and an older man with whom he shared his food and roof. Just in time, Walter Cole (Charles S. Dutton), from a charity organization, can prevent his suicide and also offers him a quite well-paid job as servant for a hunting party in the Rocky Mountains. Mason accepts the job and flies with them to a hut in the wilderness where they prepare everything for the four rich businessmen who want to hunt something special. Mason does not yet know that he is the victim of their sport that should lead to the basic insticts of man, but they did not count on his cleverness.—Volker Boehm

Details

Keywords
  • snow adventure
  • human hunting a human
  • human prey
  • most dangerous game
  • homeless man
Genres
  • Action
  • Thriller
  • Adventure
  • Crime
  • Drama
Release date Apr 14, 1994
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Lake Wenatchee State Airport, Washington, USA
Production companies New Line Cinema New Line Productions David Permut Productions

Box office

Budget $7400000
Gross US & Canada $7727256
Opening weekend US & Canada $2907468
Gross worldwide $7727256

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 36m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

Ice-T, living a sweet, hobo lifestyle, is approached by some rich white dudes and offered a job "assisting" a bunch of other rich white dudes on a "hunting trip" in the Rockies. Failing to consider past relationships between poor black people and rich white people, he accepts their offer, only to find that by "assisting" the white dudes really meant "running for his life", and by "hunting trip" they really meant "hunting trip". It's a laugh-a-minute as we watch Ice-T use all of his street wiles and urban cunning to escape a gang of armed and gouty job-creators while running through the jungle.

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