Proof of Life

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Proof of Life (2000)

R 12/08/2000 (US) Thriller, Action, Drama 2h 15m

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For her, it's personal. For him, it's a contract.

Overview

Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.

William Prochnau

Author
Taylor Hackford

Director
Thomas Hargrove

Novel
Tony Gilroy

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Meg Ryan

Alice Bowman
Russell Crowe

Terry Thorne
David Morse

Peter Bowman
Pamela Reed

Janis Goodman
David Caruso

Dino
Anthony Heald

Ted Fellner
Stanley Anderson

Jerry
Gottfried John

Eric Kessler
Alun Armstrong

Wyatt
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Russell Crowe would of course come to be better known elsewhere (filmicly) in this year, but what of his other release in 2000? Proof of Life is a blender, a picture that is in part thriller, part romance, part drama and part observation on a very real life problem - that of kidnapping for ransom. So many genres to tackle means that invariably Taylor Hackford's film feels over stuffed, pushing the running time to two hours and fifteen minutes, it is this that hurts it. A shame because if trimmed of the pointless filler and drawn out sequences then there is a very effic... read the rest.

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