--- title: 'F/X (1986)' type: 'film' director: 'Robert Mandel' released: '1986-01-01' runtime_minutes: 104 genres: - 'Action' - 'Crime' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/fx-1986' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089118/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # F/X (1986) 1986 · 104 min · Action, Crime, Thriller · United States ## Synopsis F/X is a 1986 American action thriller film directed by Robert Mandel, written by Gregory Fleeman and Robert T. Megginson, and starring Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, and Angela Bassett in her film debut. The film follows a special effects expert who is hired by the U.S. Department of Justice to stage the murder of a mobster about to enter the Witness Protection Program, but complications arise when he is targeted for murder himself; meanwhile, an NYPD detective becomes suspicious of the circumstances of the case. ## Credits - **Director:** [Robert Mandel](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-mandel) - **Original Music Composer:** [Bill Conti](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-conti) - **Producer:** [Dodi Fayed](https://cinepixo.com/people/dodi-fayed) - **Director of Photography:** [Miroslav Ondříček](https://cinepixo.com/people/miroslav-ondricek) - **Editor:** [Terry Rawlings](https://cinepixo.com/people/terry-rawlings) ## Cast - [Mason Adams](https://cinepixo.com/people/mason-adams) - [Tom Noonan](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-noonan) - [James Pickens Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-pickens-jr) - [Brian Dennehy](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-dennehy) - [Joe Grifasi](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-grifasi) - [Trey Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/trey-wilson) - [Bryan Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/bryan-brown) - [Cliff DeYoung](https://cinepixo.com/people/cliff-deyoung) - [Paul D'Amato](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-d-amato) - [Diane Venora](https://cinepixo.com/people/diane-venora) - [Roscoe Orman](https://cinepixo.com/people/roscoe-orman) - [Angela Bassett](https://cinepixo.com/people/angela-bassett) - [Jerry Orbach](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-orbach) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/fx-1986 Film facts: Wikidata (Q402181); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.