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Overview

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5.8/10   19,664 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Ryne Douglas Pearson (novel)
Lawrence Konner (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
3 April 1998 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Someone knows too much. more
Plot:
Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who is the... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins more
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Not your typical Bruce Willis film more (105 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bruce Willis ... Art Jeffries

Alec Baldwin ... Nicholas Kudrow
Miko Hughes ... Simon Lynch

Chi McBride ... Tommy B. Jordan

Kim Dickens ... Stacey

Robert Stanton ... Dean Crandell

Bodhi Elfman ... Leo Pedranski (as Bodhi Pine Elfman)

Carrie Preston ... Emily Lang

Lindsey Ginter ... Burrell (as L.L. Ginter)

Peter Stormare ... Shayes

Kevin Conway ... Lomax

John Carroll Lynch ... Martin Lynch

Kelley Hazen ... Jenny Lynch

John Doman ... Supervisor Hartley
Richard Riehle ... Edgar Halstrom
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Mercury Falling (USA) (working title)
Simon (USA) (working title)
Simon Says (USA) (working title)
Simple Simon (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence and language.
Runtime:
111 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Actor Miko Hughes spent time with many autistic children at a special school. He also worked with a Chicago child psychologist to understand how to portray an autistic child. more
Goofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the ambulance, they skip the green card in Simon's collection, which is why they appear to be in a different order on the train. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
FBI Supervisor Hartley: Let's go down.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Watch the Mercury Rising (1999) (V) more
Soundtrack:
London Jam more

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19 out of 23 people found the following comment useful.
Not your typical Bruce Willis film, 24 October 2006
7/10
Author: galahadfairlight from Bath

This film was panned by critics when it was first released, and to this day, I have absolutely no idea why.

Perhaps its because when you think of 'Bruce Willis' you think Die Hard, Action, over the top sequences.

Well perhaps the 'critics' need to get a life and stop thinking in such narrow terms, Willis is an able actor that can do more than Die Hard and in Mercury Rising he proves it ably.

I'm not going to go too much into the story as many others have, but the performance of Miko Hughes as the autistic 8 year old was fantastic. Having met a few autistic children, I'm not sure how Miko Hughes' performance wasn't singled out, which just further goes to show the naivety of the critics.

Only thing I didn't like about the film is John Barrys score. This man is so typecast as the James Bond music man, whenever I hear music, thats all I can think of, as his style is so focused on a certain type of sound with the same instruments littering his scores.

Every film he has ever done sounds the same.

Mercury Rising is worthy of your time, and I am not surprised that people are finally discovering it and realising that its not the failure that critics would have you believe.

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