Chill Factor is a
1999The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I, The Sixth Sense, The Green Mile, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan,...
actionAction movies are a film genre wherein the story is largely told through physical action as opposed to dialogue. The action typically involves individual efforts on the part of the hero. While action has long been an element of films, the "Action film" as a genre of its own began to develop in the...
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filmFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
, directed by
Hugh Johnson- Selected works :* A Line in the Sand * From a Place of Darkness - cinematographer/second unit director*Eragon - cinematographer*Kingdom of Heaven - second unit director/second unit cinematographer...
and starring
Cuba Gooding, Jr.Cuba M. Gooding, Jr. is an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal as Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire and his critically acclaimed performance as Tré Styles in John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood .-Early life:Cuba Gooding, Jr...
and
Skeet UlrichBrian Ray "Skeet" Ulrich is an American actor best known for starring in the CBS drama Jericho and for playing Billy Loomis in Scream.-Early life:...
. The film centers on two unwitting civilians who are forced to protect a deadly chemical weapon from the hands of terrorists.
Plot
Two mismatched men, Arlo (
Cuba Gooding, Jr.Cuba M. Gooding, Jr. is an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal as Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire and his critically acclaimed performance as Tré Styles in John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood .-Early life:Cuba Gooding, Jr...
) an Ice Cream truck driver, and Tim (
Skeet UlrichBrian Ray "Skeet" Ulrich is an American actor best known for starring in the CBS drama Jericho and for playing Billy Loomis in Scream.-Early life:...
), a convenience store clerk, are forced to team up, and get on each others nerves, when through a series of circumstances they find themselves in possession of a top-secret bio-warfare weapon. The weapon detonates with enormous force when heated to only 50
°FFahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit . Today, the scale has been replaced by the Celsius scale in most countries; it is still in use for non-scientific purposes in the United States and a few other nations, such as...
(10
°CCelsius is a temperature scale that is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius , who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death...
).
They have to outwit a disgruntled former U.S. Army officer who had been unjustly imprisoned as a scapegoat, and his team of alienated former Army soldiers-turned-terrorists. The ex-soldiers want to use the weapon against the government for covering up its existence and making them the scapegoats years earlier for their handling of the weapon.
With time running out, and the outdoor temperature rising, Arlo and Tim must outwit their pursuers and try to find a way to dispose of the weapon before they both become dead.
Cast
- Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Cuba M. Gooding, Jr. is an American actor. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal as Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire and his critically acclaimed performance as Tré Styles in John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood .-Early life:Cuba Gooding, Jr...
as Arlo
- Skeet Ulrich
Brian Ray "Skeet" Ulrich is an American actor best known for starring in the CBS drama Jericho and for playing Billy Loomis in Scream.-Early life:...
as Tim Mason
- Peter Firth
Peter Firth is an English actor. He is well known for a variety of starring roles in film and on television from the 1970s to the 2000s.- Early career :...
as Colonel Andrew Brynner
- David Paymer
David Paymer is an American actor, seen in such films as Quiz Show, Searching for Bobby Fischer, City Slickers, Crazy People, State and Main, Payback, Get Shorty, Carpool, The American President , A Few Good Men and Ocean's Thirteen. Paymer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting...
as Dr. Richard Long
- Hudson Leick
Heidi Hudson Leick is an American actress, best known for her role as Callisto in the cult TV series Xena: Warrior Princess.-Early and Personal Life:...
as Vaughn
- Daniel Hugh Kelly
Daniel Hugh Kelly , also known as Daniel Hugh-Kelly, is an American stage, film and television actor. He may be best known for his role on the 1980s ABC TV series Hardcastle and McCormick from 1983-1986 for which he also wrote and directed...
as Colonel Leo Vitelli
- Kevin J. O'Connor as Telstar
- Rhoda Griffis
Rhoda Griffis is an American actress, perhaps best known for playing supporting roles both in independent and mainstream films and television....
as Pregnant Woman