Proof Of Life Details

Proof Of Life

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.

Starring	Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, Pamela Reed, David Caruso, Anthony Heald
Director	Taylor Hackford
Studio	WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 14 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Romanian
Released	DVD: 27 Aug 2001 Production year: 2000
Format	DVD