# Captain America (1990)

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**Runtime**: 97 min
**Genres**: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, War
**Directed by**: Albert Pyun
**Written by**: Stephen Tolkin, Lawrence J. Block
**Starring**: Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Darren McGavin, Michael Nouri, Scott Paulin

> *As the entire world teetered on the brink of global destruction, there arose a man unlike any other...a man who personified truth and justice and all the hopes of mankind. They called him Captain America.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You're a super-soldier thawed from a deep freeze into a future you don't recognize. But the Red Skull also lives, now disguised, with plans for global chaos. The shield flies again.

Pyun's low-budget superhero film lands like a relic of pre-MCU cinema.

**Mood tags**: raw, uplifting

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