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16 Blocks: Cast, Reception & Plot

16 Blocks is a 2006 American action thriller film directed by Richard Donner and starring Bruce Willis, Mos Def, and David Morse. The film unfolds in the real time narration method. It marked the final directed film for Donner during his lifetime in addition to the last acting role for his cousin and frequent collaborator Steve Kahan.

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16 Blocks topic overview

The analysis highlights Cast, Reception and Plot as prominent areas in the source structure around 16 Blocks.

Related topics
49
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
55
Extracted relationships
95
Related term clusters
14
Bridge connections
55

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Cast · 14 topics
Reception · 12 topics
Overview · 10 topics
Plot · 6 topics
Remake · 6 topics
Release · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office
$65.7 million
Budget
$52 million
Cinematography
Glen MacPherson
Country
United States
Directed by
Richard Donner
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures

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Overview

Plot

Cast

Release

Reception

Remake

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How 16 Blocks connects Entity context

The extracted context around 16 Blocks shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, 16 Blocks → Assistant District Attorney MacDonaldCarmen, Blocks, BriggsBrenda Pressley, Bruce Willis, BunkerDavid Morse, Bus PassengerToni Ellwand, Captain Dan GruberJenna Stern, Court Officer Willis, David Morse, Deputy Commissioner WagnerPeter McRobbie, Detective Bobby TorresCasey Sander, Detective Edward MaldonadoMike Keenan, Detective Frank NugentDavid Zayas, Detective Jack MosleyMos Def, Detective Jerry ShuePatrick Garrow, Detective Jimmy MulveyRichard Fitzpatrick, Detective KallerConrad Pla, Detective OrtizHechter Ubarry, Detective TouheySasha Roiz, Diane MosleyCylk Cozart Another extracted example is 16 Blocks → Audiences, Blocks, Bruce Willis, Chicago Sun-Times, CinemaScore, Clint Eastwood, Despite, Donner, Michael Atkinson, Mos Def, On Metacritic, On Rotten Tomatoes, Peter Travers, Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, The Gauntlet, The Village Voice, Until Richard Wenk's, Wesley Morris. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

16 Blocks

Top relations

related to Cast · 35
16 Blocks → Assistant District Attorney MacDonaldCarmen, Blocks, BriggsBrenda Pressley, Bruce Willis, BunkerDavid Morse, Bus PassengerToni Ellwand, Captain Dan GruberJenna Stern, Court Officer Willis, David Morse, Deputy Commissioner WagnerPeter McRobbie, Detective Bobby TorresCasey Sander, Detective Edward MaldonadoMike Keenan, Detective Frank NugentDavid Zayas, Detective Jack MosleyMos Def, Detective Jerry ShuePatrick Garrow, Detective Jimmy MulveyRichard Fitzpatrick, Detective KallerConrad Pla, Detective OrtizHechter Ubarry, Detective TouheySasha Roiz, Diane MosleyCylk Cozart
related to Critical response · 21
16 Blocks → Audiences, Blocks, Bruce Willis, Chicago Sun-Times, CinemaScore, Clint Eastwood, Despite, Donner, Michael Atkinson, Mos Def, On Metacritic, On Rotten Tomatoes, Peter Travers, Roger Ebert, Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, The Gauntlet, The Village Voice, Until Richard Wenk's, Wesley Morris
related to Remake · 9
16 Blocks → Blocks, Bollywood, Brooklyn's Finest, In May, Millennium Films, Minutes, Original Entertainment, Rambo, The Expendables
Production companies · 7
16 Blocks → Alcon Entertainment, Cheyenne Enterprises, Emmett/Furla Films, Equity Pictures, Millennium Films, Nu Image Films, The Donners' Company
Produced by · 5
16 Blocks → Arnold Rifkin, Avi Lerner, Jim Van Wyck, John Thompson, Randall Emmett
Starring · 4
16 Blocks → Bruce Willis, Cylk Cozart, David Morse, Mos Def
is a · 2
16 Blocks → 2006 American action thriller film directed by Richard Donner and starring Bruce Willis, second film in which David Morse plays the villain to Bruce Willis as the protagonist
Box office · 1
16 Blocks → $65.7 million
Budget · 1
16 Blocks → $52 million
Cinematography · 1
16 Blocks → Glen MacPherson

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Important terminology

mosley film bunker blocks jack 16 million donner pictures office frank richard willis mos def directed box eddie nugent bus

16 Blocks relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 95 structured relationships around 16 Blocks. Examples in this analysis include 16 Blocks → Box office → $65.7 million and 16 Blocks → Budget → $52 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
16 BlocksBox office$65.7 million1.00infobox
16 BlocksBudget$52 million1.00infobox
16 BlocksCinematographyGlen MacPherson1.00infobox
16 BlocksCountryUnited States1.00infobox
16 BlocksDirected byRichard Donner1.00infobox
16 BlocksDistributed byWarner Bros. Pictures1.00infobox
16 BlocksEdited bySteven Mirkovich1.00infobox
16 BlocksLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
16 BlocksMusic byKlaus Badelt1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduced byAvi Lerner1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduced byRandall Emmett1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduced byJohn Thompson1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduced byArnold Rifkin1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduced byJim Van Wyck1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduction companiesAlcon Entertainment1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduction companiesMillennium Films1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduction companiesCheyenne Enterprises1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduction companiesEmmett/Furla Films1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduction companiesThe Donners' Company1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduction companiesEquity Pictures1.00infobox
16 BlocksProduction companiesNu Image Films1.00infobox
16 BlocksRelease dateMarch 3, 2006 (2006-03-03)1.00infobox
16 BlocksRunning time102 minutes1.00infobox
16 BlocksStarringBruce Willis1.00infobox
16 BlocksStarringMos Def1.00infobox
16 BlocksStarringDavid Morse1.00infobox
16 BlocksStarringCylk Cozart1.00infobox
16 BlocksWritten byRichard Wenk1.00infobox
16 Blocksis a2006 American action thriller film directed by Richard Donner and starring Bruce Willis0.90text
16 Blocksis asecond film in which David Morse plays the villain to Bruce Willis as the protagonist0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around 16 Blocks bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Bruce, Def and Mos. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • 16 Blocks
    • Bruce
    • Def
    • Mos
    • Willis
    • David
    • Morse
    • Richard
    • Bros
    • Directed
    • Warner
    • Box
    • Donner
  • 16 blocks
    • Bruce
    • Def
    • Mos
    • Willis
    • David
    • Morse
    • Richard
    • Bros
    • Directed
    • Warner
    • Box
    • Donner
  • thriller film
    • Donner
    • Richard
    • Million
    • Grossed
    • Def
    • Mos
    • Willis
    • David
    • Morse
    • Bobby
    • Bruce
    • Frank
  • richard donner
    • Mos
    • Richard
    • Willis
    • Morse
    • Def
    • David
    • Bobby
    • Bruce
    • Film
    • Frank
    • Release
    • Jack
  • bruce willis
    • Def
    • Mos
    • Bruce
    • Willis
    • David
    • Morse
    • Richard
    • Directed
    • Blocks
    • Donner
    • Film
    • Release
  • mos def
    • Mos
    • Willis
    • Richard
    • David
    • Morse
    • Directed
    • Donner
    • Film
    • Release
    • Bobby
    • Bros
    • District
  • david morse
    • Morse
    • Def
    • Mos
    • Richard
    • Willis
    • Directed
    • Donner
    • Release
    • Bobby
    • Bros
    • District
    • Warner
  • david zayas
    • Morse
    • Def
    • Mos
    • Richard
    • Willis
    • Directed
    • Donner
    • Release
    • Bobby
    • Bros
    • District
    • Warner

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For 16 Blocks, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects 16 Blocks with Cast. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
16 Blocks — Cast · splits 41 ⟂ 15
16 Blocks — Reception · splits 43 ⟂ 13
16 Blocks — Overview · splits 45 ⟂ 11
16 Blocks — Plot · splits 49 ⟂ 7
16 Blocks — Remake · splits 49 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

16 Blocks

Nodes56
Edges55
Triples95
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035714
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around 16 Blocks to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Cast, Reception & Plot, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — 16 Blocks · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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