Good Suspenseful Movie! This is a suspenseful movie that Meg and Russell were the "hook" to bring the audience in. Without Meg and Russell in the movie, the movie wold probably be a guy type of movie about the guerillas in South America, which as a matter of fact, reminded a lot of those movies about Vietnam. Meg was the one who draw me to watch the movie because I like her. I could care less abou... read more
Description: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 inAround 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 Trade," written by William Prochnau, which was published in the May 1998 issue of Vanity Fair magazine.... (more)(less)
“Good Suspenseful Movie! This is a suspenseful movie that Meg and Russell were the "hook" to bring the audience in. Without Meg and Russell in the movie, the movie wold probably be a guy type of movie about the guerillas in South America, which as a matter of fact, reminded a lot of those movies about Vietnam. Meg was the one who draw me to watch the movie because I like her. I could care less about a movie about kidnaping and the guerillas in South America. A good suspenseful movie, which I recommend, but don't rent it thinking that it is about an adulterous relationship between Alice and Terry. It is a story about a man who got kidnaped because of the friction between multinationals and the local government, that when push turns to shove he is left in a foreign country, without help; with” read more
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