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Skyscraper is a critically-panned 1997 direct-to-video movie starring former exotic dancer and Playboy Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith. It was directed by Raymond Martino and written by William Applegate Jr. and John Larrabee. The movie is largely an unofficial remake of the film Die Hard
with Smith taking the lead role. Most of the focus of the movie is shifted to Smith's character and her various sex/nude scenes in the film.

Plot summary

Fairfax (Charles M. Huber), a criminal mastermind prone to quoting Shakespeare, is intent on collecting a series of four interlocking electronic devices that can somehow "shift the balance of power in the world." He manages, through deception and violence, to acquire three of the devices. (On one occasion, unbeknownst to her, protagonist and helicopter pilot Carrie Wisk has shuttled two of Fairfax’ goons to the site of one of their raids.) Fairfax then sets his sights on the fourth device, which is tucked away in the Zitex building, an 86-floor skyscraper.

Wisk is again called to pick up a pair of VIPs, who this time turn out to be Fairfax himself and his assistant Jacques (Jonathan Fuller). She takes them to Zitex, where, in a movie cliché double-cross, Fairfax mortally wounds Cranston (Eugene Robert Glazer), the possessor of the final device. Cranston escapes and meets up with Wisk on the roof, where he entrusts her with the device, admonishing her to keep it away from Fairfax at all costs. Wisk hops on a window washers’ rig and crashes through a window, then stashes the device in a trash bin.

Wisk’s LAPD officer husband (Richard Steinmetz), who’s been investigating the strange goings-on around town, heads for Zitex, fearing for his wife’s safety. Wisk’s husband leads Fairfax’ men on a chase around the building before being rescued by his better half. Fairfax finds the device, kills Jacques (in another clichéd double-cross) and heads for the roof, where Wisk engages him in a kickboxing showdown which ends with Fairfax’ (inevitable) 86-story fall to the street below.

Cast

Anna Nicole Smith
: Carrie Wisk
Richard Steinmetz
: Gordon Wisk
Branimir Cikatiae: Zorkov
Calvin Levels: Hakim
Jonathan Fuller: Jacques
Lee de Broux: Captain Wood
Deirdre Imershein: Natasha
Charles M. Huber: Fairfax
Deron McBee: Leidermeier
Vincent DePalma: Johnny Hill
Alan Brooks: Booker
Gary Imhoff: Dudley
Bob McCracken: Williams
Eugene Robert Glazer
: Cranston
Seth Isler: Clancy

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