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Release Date: 1991

Cast: Deborah Rennard, Lisa Pelikan, Ash Adams, Eric Karson, Ashley Johnson, Michel Qissi, Voyo Goric, George McDaniel, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ash Adams, Harrison Page, Brian Thompson

Categories: Movies, Indie, Action/Adventure, Martial Arts, Thriller, Action

Lionheart (also known as Wrong Bet, A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave) is a 1990 film, directed by Sheldon Lettich, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and co-starring Brian Thompson. Along with Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Brian Thompson, Lisa Pelikan, Ashley Johnson. The film stars Van Damme as a paratrooper legionnaire; when his brother is seriously injured he returns to Los Angeles to enter the underground fighting circuit to raise money for his brother's family. Arguably one of the more essential Van Damme films in the view of fans, the film's cast and crew included two people that had... MORE

Lionheart (also known as Wrong Bet, A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave) is a 1990 film, directed by Sheldon Lettich, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and co-starring Brian Thompson. Along with Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Brian Thompson, Lisa Pelikan, Ashley Johnson. The film stars Van Damme as a paratrooper legionnaire; when his brother is seriously injured he returns to Los Angeles to enter the underground fighting circuit to raise money for his brother's family. Arguably one of the more essential Van Damme films in the view of fans, the film's cast and crew included two people that had appeared in an earlier Van Damme film: Michel Qissi (a good friend of his) and Sheldon Lettich. This was the second time Qissi played a villain in a Van Damme film, the first being notably as Tong Po in Kickboxer (1989). Lettich helped write one of Van Damme's breakthrough films, Bloodsport, along with another Van Damme film, Double Impact. Van Damme plays Lyon Gaultier, a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion stationed in Djibouti, North Africa. His brother, who is married to an American woman, is burned alive by the members of a drug squad in a drug deal gone wrong and suffers third-degree LESS