---
title: 'Hard Rain (1998)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mikael Salomon'
released: '1998-01-16'
runtime_minutes: 92
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Crime'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'Australia'
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'France'
  - 'Denmark'
  - 'United States'
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/hard-rain-1998'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120696/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Hard Rain (1998)

1998 · 92 min · Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller · Australia, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, United States, Japan


## Synopsis

Hard Rain is a 1998 disaster action thriller film directed by Mikael Salomon, written by Graham Yost, produced by Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, and Gary Levinsohn, and starring Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, and Ed Asner. An international co-production among the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, and Japan, the film centers on a small Indiana town amidst a natural disaster where a gang attempts to pull off a heist and survive man-made treachery. It received generally negative reviews and the film was a box office bomb, grossing $19.9 million against a $70 million budget.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mikael Salomon](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikael-salomon)
- **Screenplay:** [Graham Yost](https://cinepixo.com/people/graham-yost)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Christopher Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-young)
- **Producer:** [Ian Bryce](https://cinepixo.com/people/ian-bryce), [Gary Levinsohn](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-levinsohn), [Mark Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-gordon), [Allison Lyon Segan](https://cinepixo.com/people/allison-lyon-segan)
- **Director of Photography:** [Peter Menzies](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-menzies)
- **Editor:** [Paul Hirsch](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-hirsch)

## Cast

- [Christian Slater](https://cinepixo.com/people/christian-slater)
- [Peter Murnik](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-murnik)
- [Michael A. Goorjian](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-a-goorjian)
- [Richard Dysart](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-dysart)
- [Jay Patterson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jay-patterson)
- [Minnie Driver](https://cinepixo.com/people/minnie-driver)
- [Dann Florek](https://cinepixo.com/people/dann-florek)
- [Betty White](https://cinepixo.com/people/betty-white)
- [Morgan Freeman](https://cinepixo.com/people/morgan-freeman)
- [Mark Rolston](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-rolston)
- [Wayne Duvall](https://cinepixo.com/people/wayne-duvall)
- [Ed Asner](https://cinepixo.com/people/ed-asner)
- [Ray Baker](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-baker)
- [Ricky Harris](https://cinepixo.com/people/ricky-harris)
- [Randy Quaid](https://cinepixo.com/people/randy-quaid)

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Official site: http://www.hardrain.com/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/hard-rain-1998
Film facts: Wikidata (Q1585018); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.