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Proof of Life by Taylor Hackford
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DVD Cover InformationActor: David Caruso, David Morse, Meg Ryan, Pamela Reed, Russell Crowe Director: Taylor Hackford Brand: RYAN,MEG Producer: Taylor Hackford Producer: Charles Mulvehill Producer: Feliks Pastusiak Producer: Steven Reuther Writer: Thomas Hargrove Writer: Tony Gilroy Writer: William Prochnau DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled) Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 135 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-06-19 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Proof of LifeMovie Review: This was great. Summary: 5 StarsWhere to begin with all the good things about this movie?
1. We all know that South America is a very good place to go if you want to get kidnapped and held for ransom. But this film did a good job of showing us some of the grievances that are used to rationalize these kidnappings.
2. This film shows that there is a business side to hostage negotiation as well as kidnapping. (Who would ever have thought that a person would bargain for how much they were willing to pay for a person's life?)
3. The characters were all very well developed and the camp was made very believable.
There is more, but I can only recommend that you see the film and see all the good things for yourself.
Summary of Proof of LifeTheir lives are on the line. Their hearts are out on a limb. The wife of a kidnap victim and the hostage negotiator working with her navigate a brutal world of terrorism that values money over life - and find their tasks complicated by the growing awareness that they're attracted to each other. When someone in Proof of Life says "Don't leave me hanging," you can bet they're going to be left hanging. That's what happens when Alice Bowman (Meg Ryan) learns that her husband Peter (David Morse) has been kidnapped by rebels in the (fictional) Latin American country of Tecala. He's building a corporate-funded dam there, and that makes him a fine target for kidnap by the rebels, who barter with the lives of well-insured executives. Enter Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe), former soldier-turned-"K&R" (kidnap and ransom) negotiator for a global firm that collects a commission for rescued hostages. With no guarantee of payment, Thorne takes the job out of moral obligation (and a yearning for would-be widow Alice). There's little room for delicacy in Tony Gilroy's screenplay, adapted from an article by William Prochnau and the book Long Road to Freedom by kidnapping survivor Thomas Hargrove. A hint of romance between Crowe and Ryan (who enjoyed plenty of it off-screen) adds tension as the story shifts back and forth to Morse's captivity, but it also threatens to cast Alice in an unsympathetic light. Avoiding that pitfall, director Taylor Hackford crafts the plot as a latter-day Casablanca that unfolds on a grander canvas (at stunning locations in Ecuador) while favoring an exciting rescue-mission climax over the tragedy of an ill-timed affair. It might have worked better as a straightforward macho action flick (with David Caruso doing lively work as Crowe's gung-ho K&R cohort), but Proof of Life effectively conveys the two-sided torment of a hostage crisis, while Morse holds it all together as the character to root for. --Jeff Shannon
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