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About
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
Theatrical
Nov 14, 1997
Box Office
$159.3M
Budget
$60.0M
Return
2.7x
DVD / Blu-ray
Apr 28, 1998
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Universal Pictures, Mutual Film Company, Alphaville Films
Quotes
See all →Understanding the Nature of Evil
Carter Preston
I wonder if we'll ever know who the hell he really was.
Declan Mulqueen
We know all we need to. He was evil, he's dead, and he's gone. Nothing more matters.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
A Life-and-Death Conversation
The Jackal
Press here. Hard. It'll slow the bleeding.
[points to her wound]
The Jackal
Ah. See, that's bad. The blood's almost black. That means the bullet's in your liver. You've got about twenty minutes to live. If the pain gets to be too much, take your hand away, and you'll be dead in five minutes.
[draws a heart shape on her cheek with her blood]
Valentina Koslova
When Declan kills you, you think of me, okay?
[fiercely]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →B
Bruce Willis
The Jackal
R
Richard Gere
Declan Mulqueen
S
Sidney Poitier
Carter Preston
D
Diane Venora
Major Valentina Koslova
J.K. Simmons
FBI Agent T. I. Witherspoon
M
Mathilda May
Isabella Zanconia
J
John Cunningham
FBI Director Donald Brown
Jack Black
Ian Lamont
S
Stephen Spinella
Douglas
T
Tess Harper
The First Lady
D
David Hayman
Terek Murad
R
Ravil Isyanov
Ghazzi Murad
M
Maggie Castle
Maggie
R
Richard Lineback
FBI Agent McMurphy
K
Karen Kirschenbauer
Speaker
D
Daniel Dae Kim
Akashi
S
Serge Houde
Beaufres
L
Leslie Phillips
Woolburton
S
Steve Bassett
George Decker
J
Jonathan Aris
Alexander Radzinski
