Proof of Life R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 3, 2009
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Russell Crowe & Meg Ryan | |
Performer: | David Morse, Pamela Reed & David Caruso | |
Directed by | Taylor Hackford | |
Screenwriting by | Tony Gilroy | |
Produced by | Charles Mulvehill | |
Executive Production by | Steven Reuther & Tony Gilroy |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C- --
Crackles, sputters, and starts up finally in the last half of the movie.
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Mixed Reviews
Neither Crowe, Ryan nor the topical subject keeps Proof of Life from feeling recycled. For all the up-to-the-minute research, the movie still gives off the musty scent of Hollywood contrivance.
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Newsweek
Proof of Life refers to a negotiator's demand for proof a hostage is still alive...you may start wondering the same thing about the movie.
New York Post
...PROOF OF LIFE is a first-rate thriller that also manages to be an intimate drama, a journalistic investigation and a political farce...
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 2/5 --
Tragically for both Hackford and the punters, the best drama came when the cameras weren't rolling.
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RTÉ (Ireland)
...A well-paced drama buoyed by exceptional performances....The stoic yet lonely quality Crowe lens his onscreen persona strikes a perfect balance...
Box Office
Rating: 3/5 --
Good story, but too violent for kids.
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Common Sense Media
Product 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 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.
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Product Info
- UPC: 883929091287
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