Surviving The Game
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Genre: Thriller, Adventure, Action, Crime Fiction, Action/Adventure, Action Thrillers, Chase Movie, Drama
Year: 1994
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Ice T, Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley, F. Murray Abraham, Charles S. Dutton, William McNamara
Surviving the Game is a 1994 action film directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, starring Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, and Gary Busey. It is loosely based on the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell.
Mason is a homeless man from Seattle who loses his only friends—a fellow homeless man and his pet dog—on the same day. Dejected, Mason attempts to commit suicide when a soup kitchen worker, Walter Cole, saves him. Cole refers the man to businessman Thomas Burns, who kindly offers Mason a job as a hunting guide. Despite his misgivings, the lure of a well paying job causes Mason to accept.
Flying to a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by hundreds of acres of woods, Mason meets the rest of the hunting party, all of whom paid $50,000 for the privilege of being there. The party includes Doc Hawkins, the founder of the hunt, a psychotic psychiatrist who specializes in psychological assessments of CIA agents, Cole (who picks the "game" for the hunt), a Texas "oil man" named John Griffin, a wealthy Wall Street executive named Derek Wolfe Sr. and his son, Derek Wolfe Jr., who is at first ignorant of the true purposes of the hunt.
The first night sees all the men eating a
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