This is it! This is the film that caused one of Hollywood’s most enduring marriages (Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid) to break up!
In an unnamed South American country, idealistic US engineer Peter Bowman, David Morse, is nabbed and held for ransom by Marxist guerrillas. Enter Australian kidnapping expert Terry Thorne, Russell Crowe, assigned to help Peter's desperate wife Alice, Meg Ryan, deal with the crisis. Greedy corporate maneuvering leads the insurance company that employs Terry to wash its hands of the case, but the hero decides to stay on the job anyway.
This Action/Adventure/Romance/Drama is rated R for violence, language and some drug material.
Aside from the aforementioned, the film stars David Caruso as Dino and Pamela Reed as Janis Bowman.
The movie was Directed by Taylor Hackford, Produced by Steven Ruther and Taylor Hackford and Written by William Prochnau.
It was released by Warners.
The film’s Original Music Score was written by Danny Elfman.
Location shoots, aside from the US include: Ecuador, England and Poland.
In its 2nd week, this film made a measly $5,225,000; giving it a running total of $18,614,000.
Its running time is 2 hours and 15 minutes.
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