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title: 'Eureka (1983)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Nicolas Roeg'
released: '1983-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 124
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/eureka-1983'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083906/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Eureka (1983)

1983 · R · 124 min · Drama, Thriller · United Kingdom, United States


## Synopsis

Eureka is a 1983 epic psychological drama thriller film directed by Nicolas Roeg, and starring Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Theresa Russell, Mickey Rourke, and Joe Pesci. It follows the life of a gold prospector who becomes one of the world's wealthiest men after striking gold in 1925, but, 20 years on, fears that he is being preyed upon by his daughter and her social-climbing husband, as well as a mobster attempting to usurp the Caribbean island he owns. The screenplay is loosely based on the unsolved murder of Sir Harry Oakes in the Bahamas in 1943, and partly adapted from the nonfiction book Who Killed Harry Oakes? by Marshall Houts. The film's title is derived from the 1894 essay of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Nicolas Roeg](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicolas-roeg)
- **Screenplay:** [Paul Mayersberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-mayersberg)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Stanley Myers](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-myers)
- **Producer:** [Jeremy Thomas](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeremy-thomas)
- **Director of Photography:** [Alex Thomson](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-thomson)
- **Editor:** [Tony Lawson](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-lawson)

## Cast

- [Theresa Russell](https://cinepixo.com/people/theresa-russell)
- [Mickey Rourke](https://cinepixo.com/people/mickey-rourke)
- [Jane Lapotaire](https://cinepixo.com/people/jane-lapotaire)
- [Timothy Scott](https://cinepixo.com/people/timothy-scott)
- [Ian Tracey](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-tracey)
- [Corin Redgrave](https://cinepixo.com/people/corin-redgrave)
- [Rutger Hauer](https://cinepixo.com/people/rutger-hauer)
- [Joe Pesci](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-pesci)
- [Gene Hackman](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-hackman)
- [Joe Spinell](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-spinell)
- [Ed Lauter](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-lauter)

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