Shooter (1988 film)
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Duration | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Action, Drama Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1988 (1988) Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie Similar movies Related Gary Nelson movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shooter is a 1988 American television pilot that NBC decided not to pick up as a series, and which instead was aired by NBC as a television movie of the week in September 1988. The film is based on the book Shooter by and about Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly, who had been a combat photojournalist during the Vietnam War and later the White House photographer for resident Gerald Ford.
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Summary
The film followed the adventures in Vietnam of a fictional photo journalist named Matt Thompson, played by Jeffrey Nordling in his debut role.
It was made shortly after Good Morning Vietnam had been a success in theaters, and it borrowed two actors from the Good Morning Vietnam cast, Noble Willingham and Cu Ba Nguyen, as well as having a similar free-spirited protagonist who is constantly clashing with his superiors.
The television pilot was filmed on location in Thailand. David Hume Kennerly served as executive producer and writer. Gary Nelson directed the film.
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Awards
Shooter won an Emmy for cinematography.
References
Shooter (1988 film) WikipediaShooter (1988 film) IMDb Shooter (1988 film) themoviedb.org