Daylight

1996
PG-13
1h 54m

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Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.

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5.9/10

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 4 nominations total

Trivia
One reason Sylvester Stallone agreed to act in this movie was to help him overcome his fear of confined spaces. He'd agreed to appear in Cliffhanger (1993) to help him overcome his fear of heights.

Goofs
Kit finds some 80-year-old fuses underwater, but they work. Fuses were not waterproof in the 1920s.

Quotes
George Tyrell: Get them back to daylight.

Connections
Edited into Octopus 2: River of Fear (2001)

Soundtracks
Whenever There is Love
(from 'Daylight')
Written by Bruce Roberts and Edgar Bronfman Jr. (as Sam Roman)
Performed by Bruce Roberts and Donna Summer
Courtesy of Universal Records
By Arrangement with MCA Special Markets and Products

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Action Hero Lite

Stallone returned after a break from action movies to make "Daylight." Here he tried to make his character more three dimensional, a human with weaknesses and flaws rather than the mute and destruction minded heroes of some of his other movies.

Making Latura as a human was a good idea, and you get to like him, although the rest of the movie doesn't quite hold up it's end. It plays as some cross between the "Poseidon Adventure" and an Irwin Allen disaster film, with an uplifting musical score. You know pretty quickly who's going to live and die, and even though Latura is a mere mortal, only he can save those lives.

Still, "Daylight" makes a good diversion, and the "good guy really is a good guy" concept works for the most part.