Hard Target (1993)
1993 film by John Woo
- Released
- 1993
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Martial arts film
- Director
- John Woo
- Screenplay
- Chuck Pfarrer
- Producer
- James Jacks, Sean Daniel, Sam Raimi
- Music
- Graeme Revell
- Cinematography
- Russell Carpenter
- Editing
- Bob Murawski
- Starring
- Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vosloo, Wilford Brimley, Kasi Lemmons, Chuck Pfarrer, Willie C. Carpenter
- Running time
- 95 minutes
- Distributor
- UIP-Dunafilm, Netflix
- Budget
- $20 million
- Set in
- New Orleans
Hard Target is a 1993 American action film directed by Hong Kong film director John Woo. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, an out-of-work homeless Cajun merchant seaman and former United States Force Recon Marine who saves a young woman named Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler) from a gang of thugs in New Orleans. Chance learns that Binder is searching for her missing father (Chuck Pfarrer), and agrees to aid Binder in her search. They soon learn that Binder's father has died at the hands of hunt organisers Emil Fouchon (Lance Henriksen) and Pik van Cleaf (Arnold Vosloo), a ruthless businessman and his right-hand mercenary, who arrange the hunting of homeless men as a form of recreational sport. The screenplay was written by Pfarrer and is based on the 1932 film adaptation of Richard Connell's 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game". It is the first installment in the Hard Target film series.
Cast
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Lance Henriksen
- Yancy Butler
- Arnold Vosloo
- Wilford Brimley
- Kasi Lemmons
- Chuck Pfarrer
- Willie C. Carpenter
- Marco St. John
- Ted Raimi
- Sven-Ole Thorsen
More films directed by John Woo
- The Young Dragons 1974
- Hand of Death 1976
- Last Hurrah for Chivalry 1979
- Once a Thief 1991
Series
- Followed by: Hard Target 2
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q574993 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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