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Release Date:
8 December 2000 (USA)
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Plot:
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
5 nominations
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(48 articles)
Crowe Romance Rocked Ryan's World
(From WENN. 5 August 2008, 6:30 PM, PDT)
Ryan & Perry: More Than Just Friends?
(From WENN. 12 July 2007)
(From WENN. 5 August 2008, 6:30 PM, PDT)
Ryan & Perry: More Than Just Friends?
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Good Crowe, Ryan, Morse
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Meg Ryan | ... | Alice Bowman |
 | Russell Crowe | ... | Terry Thorne |
 | David Morse | ... | Peter Bowman |
 | Pamela Reed | ... | Janis Goodman |
 | David Caruso | ... | Dino |
 | Anthony Heald | ... | Ted Fellner |
 | Stanley Anderson | ... | Jerry |
| Gottfried John | ... | Eric Kessler |
| Alun Armstrong | ... | Wyatt |
| Michael Kitchen | ... | Ian Havery |
| Margo Martindale | ... | Ivy |
| Mario Ernesto Sánchez | ... | Arturo Fernandez (as Mario Ernesto Sanchez) |
| Pietro Sibille | ... | Juaco |
| Vicky Hernández | ... | Maria (as Vicky Hernandez) |
| Norma Martínez | ... | Norma (as Norma Martinez) |
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Rated R for violence, language and some drug material.
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Runtime:
135 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Malaysia:18PL |
Iceland:14 |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:M |
Chile:TE |
Denmark:15 |
Finland:K-15 |
France:U |
Germany:12 (w) |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Netherlands:16 |
New Zealand:M |
Norway:15 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
South Korea:12 |
Spain:7 |
Sweden:15 |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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The school bus full of children shown in the kidnapping scene are students of Colegio Aleman (German High School), a private school located outside of Quito chartered by the German government.
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Continuity: When Peter is photographed by his captors, his feet are completely red, covered in blood. Then when the instant-photograph is being looked at in the hotel room by Terry, Alice and Janis, there is less blood and injury visible on his feet.
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References Soldier of Fortune (1955)
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Estas Llorando
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Despite the obvious ending being reminiscent of "Casablanca," which is a great film, "Proof of Life" held up for the most part with A LOT of action--guns, muscle, and physical cruelty. Crowe is mostly always good, but Ryan surprised me in this. I found her multi-dimensional, able to shake the cutesy business that she usually plays, and really good as a quite desperate wife who has some issues with her world-hopping engineer husband. Morse was believably chauvinistic early on (before the kidnapping), and quite remarkably believable as a desperate hostage. Crowe was solidly heroic, not a Humphrey Bogart, to be sure, but certainly someone whom Ryan as Alice would remember for a long time. Certainly Terry and Alice never had "Paris" to remember, but there were good vibrations between them as Crowe plotted to save her husband.