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Jun 7, 2014 · House of Hardcore V: Directed by Tommy Dreamer. With Tommy Dreamer, David Gere, AJ Styles.
- Tommy Dreamer
- 2014-06-07
- Sport
- Tommy Dreamer, David Gere, AJ Styles
House of Hardcore V (Video 2014) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Released April 7th, 2018, 'House of Hardcore 40' stars Tom Laughlin, Sami Johnston, Willie McClinton Jr., Kevin Arturo Geist The movie has a runtime of about , and received a user score of 100 ...
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In December 1977, Jake Van Dorn is a prosperous local businessman in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who has strong Calvinist convictions. A single parent, Van Dorn is the father of a seemingly quiet, conservative teenaged girl, Kristen, who inexplicably disappears when she goes on a church-sponsored trip to Bellflower, California. With the help of his bro...
Development
Paul Schrader partly based the screenplay for Hardcore on his own experience growing up in the Calvinist church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he studied theology at Calvin College. Having recently written the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), Schrader began preparing Hardcore alongside executive producer John Milius at Warner Bros. After a shift in the studio's management, Schrader was paid a sum of $500,000 to terminate his contract, after which Warren Beattywas attache...
Casting
Beatty clashed with Schrader in the pre-production stages of the film, resulting in Beatty leaving the project in August 1976. Beatty had wanted Schrader to reshape the script so that his character was searching for his missing girlfriend rather than his daughter, as Beatty felt he was too young at the time to portray the father of a teenager.According to director Schrader, "He wouldn't take me as a director... No good. I held out. I turned down a very large sum of money. I went after [George...
Filming
Principal photography of Hardcore took place on February 6, 1978 largely in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, with additional photography occurring in Schrader's hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, where part of the film is set. Schrader featured his own childhood church and a factory where he was employed as filming locations, and also cast his parents in uncredited bit parts.By Schrader's account, the shoot in Grand Rapids was unpleasant, as locals expressed disapproval for the fil...
Critical response
Despite arguing that the climax lapses into action film cliches, Roger Ebert nonetheless gave the movie a four-out-of-four-star review for its "moments of pure revelation", particularly in the scenes between Scott and Hubley. Gene Siskel gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four and called it "both a rich film of ideas and of strikingly real characters". He thought George C. Scott gave "one of his finest performances" in the film. Variety called it "a very good film" and predicted that...
Home media
Hardcore was available on VHS during the 1980s from Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment and later RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video. In the 1990s, it was reissued on Columbia TriStar Home Video. In 2004, the film received a DVD release from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. In August 2016, the film received a U.S. release on Blu-ray from Twilight Time in a limited edition of 3,000 copies. The disc has a commentary track from Schrader and critics Eddy Friedfeld, Lee Pfeiffer, and Paul Scrabo....
- A-Team Productions
- Jack Nitzsche
- February 9, 1979
- Buzz Feitshans
According to their press release, Fight Network will begin airing one-hour shows with old House of Hardcore event matches and highlights beginning on Tuesday, May 12 at 9 p.m. EST. They’ll do ...
Nov 15, 2014 · House of Hardcore 7 was a professional wrestling internet pay-per-view (iPPV) event produced by House of Hardcore. It took place on November 16, 2014 at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the seventh event in the House of Hardcore promotion.
Mar 21, 2018 · Joe Rivera. 03-21-2018 • 13 min read. Tommy Dreamer has gone from the "Innovator of Violence" to the promoter of it. The ECW stalwart and wrestling great is at the helm of House of Hardcore, a ...
