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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Taylor Hackford |
| Stars: |
David Morse |
| Actors: |
Pamela Reed |
| Genre: |
Action/Adventure |
| Subgenre: |
Politics · Disaster · Affairs · Hostages · News |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
012569681330 |
| Release Date: |
2000 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 15min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 2hr 15min
Release Company: Warner Home Video (June 19, 2001)
UPC: 085391905226 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 15min
Release Company: Warner Home Video (June 19, 2001)
UPC: 085391905233 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Tony Gilroy |
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Professional Reviews
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(12/01/2000, p.13-52, Kirk Honeycutt): "...PROOF OF LIFE is a first-rate thriller that also manages to be an intimate drama, a journalistic investigation and a political farce..." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Around the world, between 20,000 and 50,000 people are kidnapped each year. In Taylor Hackford's suspense-filled adventure film, American businessman Peter Bowman (David Morse) is traveling in a Latin American country when a group of criminals take him as their hostage and hold him for ransom. The megacorporation he works for sends in an expert hostage negotiator, Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe), to settle on a ransom with the kidnappers, an antigovernment faction. Thorne earns the reluctant trust of Bowman's wife, Alice (Meg Ryan), and begins trying to win Bowman's freedom, but conflict with Bowman's employers, missteps with the kidnappers, and Thorne's growing attraction to Alice threaten to derail his efforts. Crowe and Ryan are excellent as thrown-together allies under pressure, and Morse's descent from collected businessman to desperate hostage anchors the film. Watch for former NYPD BLUE sensation David Caruso as Crowe's partner. PROOF OF LIFE is based on an article entitled "Adventures in the Ransom ... |
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