Speed (1994 film)

Speed
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jan de Bont
Written by	Graham Yost
Produced by	Mark Gordon
Starring	Keanu Reeves Dennis Hopper Sandra Bullock Joe Morton Jeff Daniels
Cinematography	Andrzej Bartkowiak
Edited by	John Wright
Music by	Mark Mancina
Production company	Mark Gordon Company
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	June 7, 1994 (1994-06-07) (Hollywood) June 10, 1994 (1994-06-10) (United States)
Running time	116 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30–37 million[1][2]
Box office	$350.4 million[3]

Speed is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Jan de Bont (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Graham Yost, and starring Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, and Jeff Daniels. It revolves around a bus that is rigged by an extortionist to explode if its speed falls below 50 miles per hour.

The film premiered in Hollywood on June 7, 1994, and was released in the rest of the United States on June 10, 1994. It became critically and commercially successful, grossing $350.4 million on a $30–37 million budget, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 1994 and winning two Academy Awards for Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Sound. Since its release, Speed has been regarded as one of the best action films of the 1990s. It solidified Reeves as an action film leading man and Bullock as a Hollywood leading actress. A sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control which fared worse critically and commercially, was released three years later on June 13, 1997, without Reeves's involvement, and with Bullock in the lead role. It has gone down as one of the worst sequels ever made.^[4][5]