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6.6Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.
Released: 1990-06-07105 minDir: Sheldon LettichActionBudget: $6.0MBox office: $24.3M
Cast
- Jean-Claude Van Damme as Lyon Gaultier
- Harrison Page as Joshua Eldridge
- Lisa Pelikan as Hélène Gaultier
- Ashley Johnson as Nicole Gaultier
- Deborah Rennard as Cynthia
- Brian Thompson as Russell
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Lionheart is a 1990 American martial arts film directed by Sheldon Lettich, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Rennard, Harrison Page, Lisa Pelikan and Brian Thompson. It also features the acting debut of Ashley Johnson. Van Damme plays a French Foreign Legionnaire stationed in Africa, who must desert to the United States and enter the underground fighting circuit to raise money for his murdered brother's family.
The film premiered in France on August 1, 1990, and opened in the United States on January 11, 1991. It received lackluster reviews, but marked Van Damme's breakthrough as a theatrical leading man in North America. It was released in the United Kingdom as A.W.O.L: Absent Without Leave, and in Oceania as Wrong Bet, two early titles considered by the producers.