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Cobra is a 1986 American action, thriller, and crime film directed by George P. Cosmatos. Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay, which is based on a work by Paula Gosling. The cast includes Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, and Andrew Robinson. Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan produced the film, which was distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix. The narrative is set in Los Angeles and follows a street cop protecting a witness to a murderous cult.
The movie was filmed in California and Santa Monica. It has a runtime of 85 or 87 minutes and was released in the United States. The film received a budget of $25,000,000 and generated revenue of $49,042,224. It was nominated for several Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Actor, Worst Actress, and Worst Supporting Actor. Review scores include 3.4/10, 17%, and 25/100, while IMDb lists a rating of 5.8.
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6.2A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.
Cast
- Sylvester Stallone as Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti
- Brigitte Nielsen as Ingrid
- Reni Santoni as Sergeant Gonzales
- Brian Thompson as Night Slasher
- Lee Garlington as Nancy Stalk
- Art LaFleur as Captain Sears
Themes
- showdown
- street gang
- resistance
- psychopath
- prosecution
- street war
- cop
- murder
- new world order
- gang
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Key facts
- Directed by
- George P. Cosmatos
- Screenplay by
- Sylvester Stallone
- Based on
- Fair Game , by Paula Gosling
- Produced by
- Menahem Golan , Yoram Globus
- Starring
- Sylvester Stallone Brigitte Nielsen Reni Santoni
- Cinematography
- Ric Waite
- Edited by
- James R. Symons , Don Zimmerman
- Music by
- Sylvester Levay
- Production company
- The Cannon Group
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release date
- May 23, 1986 ( 1986-05-23 )
- Running time
- 89 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $25 million
- Box office
- $160 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- thriller film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- serial killer
- Director
- George P. Cosmatos
- Screenwriter
- Sylvester Stallone
- Cast member
- Mariska Hargitay
- Composer
- Sylvester Levay
- Producer
- Menahem Golan
- Production company
- The Cannon Group
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Filming location
- Santa Monica
- Duration
- 83
- FilmAffinity ID
- 387459
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1986-01-01
- title
- Cobra
- distributed by
- Netflix
- nominated for
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star
- after a work by
- Paula Gosling
- review score
- 25/100
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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Encyclopedic overview
Cobra is a 1986 American action film directed by George P. Cosmatos and written by Sylvester Stallone, who stars in the title role. The film, loosely based on the 1974 novel A Running Duck by Paula Gosling (later published as Fair Game and filmed under that title in 1995), co-stars Reni Santoni, Brigitte Nielsen and Andrew Robinson. Cobra follows Los Angeles police Lt. Marion "Cobra" Cobretti, who investigates a string of violent crimes and also protects Ingrid Knudsen, a witness targeted by the perpetrators.
Cobra is the final film which featured the collaboration between Stallone and Nielsen after Rocky IV (1985) until Creed II (2018), and the only film the pair are both featured in while married to one another in real life, before their divorce a year later. The script was largely inspired by Stallone's original script for Beverly Hills Cop (1984).
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