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Directed by | Roger Donaldson |
Written by | Daniel Pyne |
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Cinematography | Peter Menzies Jr. |
Edited by | Nicholas Beauman |
Music by | Patrick O'Hearn |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $22 million[1] |
Box office | $18 million[2] |
White Sands is a 1992 American crime thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Daniel Pyne, and starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Samuel L. Jackson, and Mickey Rourke. The film is about a small-town New Mexico sheriff who finds a body in the desert with a suitcase containing $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
White Sands was produced by Morgan Creek Productions, and was released in the United States on April 24, 1992, by Warner Bros. It received mixed reviews and grossed $18 million worldwide against a budget of $22 million.