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Biography: Renny Harlin

Finnish director Renny Harlin did not come from an artistically inclined family (his parents were in the medical profession), but Harlin himself had determined his future before he was 12, via extensive use of a home movie camera. Harlin was a twenty-ish film school graduate when he set up his own production company; while he was fairly successful marketing documentaries and commercial shorts, young Harlin could not get anyone in Finland to bankroll him for a feature. He moved to the presumably greener pastures of Hollywood, where he finally realized his goal with the 1986 feature Born American. Harlan's direction of 1990's Die Hard 2 seemed to bode well for steady work in action films; unfortunately, his next effort (released the same month as Die Hard 2) was the ill-fated Andrew Dice Clay vehicle The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990). The collapse of this enterprise resulted in reams of magazine copy about the "once-promising" and "washed-up" Harlin. But in 1993, he responded with the successful Cliffhanger, which managed the remarkable feat of being an actor's picture (the star was Sylvester Stallone) and a director's picture all in one. Renny Harlin was married to actress Geena Davis, whom he directed in the 1995 swashbuckler Cutthroat Island. Though the couple would re-team the following year for Harlin's The Long Kiss Goodnight, they separated in 1997 and divorce soon followed. In 1999 Harlin took the action to the ocean with Long Kiss co-star Samuel L. Jackson in Deep Blue Sea, following in 2001 with the Sylvester Stallone adreno-racer Driven. Next up, Harlin was called in to rescue the production of the prequel Exorcist: The Beginning after countless problems including a completed film from director Paul Schrader that was virtually scrapped by an unsatisfied studio. Harlin followed this up with the thriller Mindhunters. While neither of those efforts were particularly successful upon release at the box office, in 2006 Harlin had returned to his position behind the camera once again to terrify moviegoers with a tale of four teens forced to do battle with a malevolent supernatural force in The Covenant. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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Cleaner (2007)
Cast: Ed Harris Luis Guzman Eva Mendes
Tags: Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 92min
When a man who specializes in cleaning crime scenes washes away the evidence of a murder before the crime is reported, he soon becomes drawn into a deadly mystery in this hriller directed by Renny Harlin, and starring Samuel L. Jackson. ~ Jason...
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Mindhunters (2005)
Cast: Val Kilmer Jonny Lee Miller
Tags: Whodunit Thriller Psychological Thriller Slasher Film
Length: 106min
Finnish-born Hollywood filmmaker Renny Harlin directs the suspense hriller Mindhunters with a screenplay by writer/director Wayne Kramer. Val Kilmer stars as Harris, an FBI official teaching a group of trainees the art of profiling serial killers. He...
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The Covenant (2006)
Cast: Renny Harlin
Tags: Supernatural Horror Teen Movie Thriller
Length: 97min
An ancient secret threatens to unleash the powers of darkness on a group of modern prep school students when the sole survivor of a cursed bloodline returns to lay claim to the powers denied to him centuries ago in a supernatural teen hriller from...
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12 Rounds (2009)
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 108min
WWE star John Cena headlines his sophomore action picture as a police officer whose wife is kidnapped in New Orleans. Daniel Kunka provides the script, with Deep Blue Sea's Renny Harlin handling the directing duties for the 20-million-dollar Fox...
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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson Brian Cox
Tags: Thriller Action Action Thriller
Length: 120min
An ordinary woman discovers that her life was not always ordinary in this action thriller. Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a typical, well-mannered single mother working as a schoolteacher when she isn't looking after her children. Nothing on the...
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Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård
Tags: Period Film Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 114min
Planned for years, but plagued by problems such as the death of director John Frankenheimer before production had even begun and the exiting of star Liam Neeson, the fourth installment of the Exorcist saga finally got off the ground with Paul Schrader...
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Driven (2001)
Cast: Burt Reynolds
Tags: Sports Drama Drama Action
Length: 117min
Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for this action-packed drama directed by Renny Harlin and set in the dangerous, high-stakes world of CART auto racing. Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) is an up-and-coming young star of the open-wheel circuit, but he's...
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Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Tags: Natural Horror Adventure Drama Sea Adventure Thriller
Length: 100min
Although mako sharks are among the fastest and deadliest predators in the ocean, they're not as smart as humans -- at least, they weren't. However, Dr. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) has been using mako sharks as her test subjects for research on...
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Cliffhanger (1993)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone Ralph Waite John Lithgow
Tags: Action Thriller Action
Length: 113min
In Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone plays Gabe Walker, a member of a mountain-climbing rescue team. Gabe is haunted by an incident from his past when he couldn't save the girlfriend of his best friend, Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker), from falling to her...
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Cutthroat Island (1995)
Cast: Geena Davis Frank Langella
Tags: Swashbuckler Sea Adventure Adventure Costume Adventure
Length: 123min
Geena Davis stars in this adventure saga as the most swashbuckling female pirate to ever lay waste to the seven seas. Morgan Adams (Davis) is the daughter of a pirate who has followed in her father's footsteps. When he dies, he passes along his ship,...
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