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An engineer working for a mining company is kidnapped by guerillas in South America. Thorne is sent in by the insurance company acting on behalf of the mining company; an expert in negotiating for the release of kidnapped westerners. However after optimistically calming the fears of the distressed Mrs Bowman and her sister-in-law, he is pulled out because of an unpaid 'insurance contract'. With a change of heart Thorne decides to take the case on his own time and returns to find Mrs Bowman making preparations to pay a large ransom demand...
Product Identifiers
ProducerCharles Mulvehill
EAN7321900190527
eBay Product ID (ePID)3945607
Product Key Features
ActorPamela Reed, Russell Crowe, David Morse, Anthony Heald, David Caruso, Meg Ryan
FeaturesFeature Length Audio Commentary By Director Taylor Hackford\Behind The Scenes Documentary The Making Of Proof Of Life\Interactive Menus\Scene Access\Trailer, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
Additional InformationAround 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.