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Jonathan Hensleigh
Writer 67 years old

Jonathan Hensleigh

Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

Jonathan Blair Hensleigh (born February 13, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director, working primarily in the action-adventure genre, best known for writing films such as Jumanji, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and Armageddon, as well as making his own directorial... Read full bio →

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11 titles
Ice Road: Vengeance

Ice Road: Vengeance

Jonathan Hensleigh 2025 1h 53m

Big rig ice road driver Mike McCann travels to Nepal to scatter his late brother’s ashes on Mt. Everest.

The Ice Road

The Ice Road

Jonathan Hensleigh 2021 1h 48m 4.0

After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.

Kill the Irishman

Kill the Irishman

Jonathan Hensleigh 2011 1h 46m 7.3

The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.

Next

Next

Lee Tamahori 2007 1h 36m 5.8

A Las Vegas magician who can see into the future is pursued by FBI agents seeking to use his abilities to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack.

The Punisher

The Punisher

Jonathan Hensleigh 2004 2h 4m 6.5

Special agent Frank Castle had it all: A loving family, a great life, and an adventurous job. But when his life is taken away from him by a ruthless criminal and his associates, Frank has become reborn. Now serving as judge, jury, and executioner.

Armageddon

Armageddon

Michael Bay 1998 2h 31m 6.8

As the millennium approaches, top scientists are mysteriously dying.

The Saint

The Saint

Phillip Noyce 1997 1h 56m 5.6

Ivan Tretiak, Russian Mafia boss who wants to create an oil crisis in Moscow and seize power as a result sends Simon Templar, great international criminal, to England to get a secret formula for cold fusion from U.S. scientist Emma Russell. Templar falls in love with Emma and they try to outwit Tretiak and his guerrillas, hiding from them in Moscow

The Rock

The Rock

Michael Bay 1996 2h 17m 7.2

A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader demands $100 million to be paid, as restitution to families of Marines who died in covert ops. Otherwise, he will launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX gas into the San Francisco Bay area.

Jumanji

Jumanji

Joe Johnston 1995 1h 44m 7.4

When two kids play an old magic board-game they found, they release a man trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.

Die Hard with a Vengeance

Die Hard with a Vengeance

John McTiernan 1995 2h 8m 8.0

John McClane and a store owner must play a bomber's deadly game as they race around New York while trying to stop him.

A Far Off Place

A Far Off Place

Mikael Salomon 1993 1h 47m

Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination.

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