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Proof of Life
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| Proof of Life | |
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| Directed by | Taylor Hackford |
| Produced by | Executive Producers: Tony Gilroy Steven Reuther Producers: Taylor Hackford Charles Mulvehill |
| Written by | Tony Gilroy |
| Starring | Russell Crowe Meg Ryan David Morse David Caruso |
| Music by | Danny Elfman |
| Cinematography | Slawomir Idziak |
| Editing by | Sheldon Kahn John Smith |
| Distributed by | Warner Brothers |
| Release date(s) | December 10, 2000 |
| Running time | 135 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Spanish Russian Italian French |
| Budget | $65,000,000 |
| All Movie Guide profile | |
| IMDb profile | |
Proof of Life is an American film released in 2000, and directed by Taylor Hackford. The screenplay for the movie was written and co-executive produced by Tony Gilroy, and was inspired by William Prochnau's Vanity Fair magazine article "Adventures in the Ransom Trade," and the book The Long March To Freedom by Thomas Hargrove.[1]
The picture stars Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe.
It is perhaps best remembered as the film during which the two lead actors had a romantic affair. At the time of filming, Ryan was married to Dennis Quaid, but the two divorced in 2001.
The director, Taylor Hackford, blamed the film's failure at the box office on the negative publicity over Ryan and Crowe's affair.
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Alice Bowman (Meg Ryan) contacts Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe) after her husband Peter (David Morse) is kidnapped by South American rebels.
Thorne is an ex-military kidnap and ransom (K&R) expert whose inappropriate attraction to Alice drives him to rescue her husband in a twisted tale of romance amid the trauma of a kidnap situation.
The Republic of Tecala, where Proof of Life is set, is a fictional South American country, based loosely on a mix of several Andean countries.
Tecala has an internal conflict between government forces and the Liberation Army of Tecala (ELT). The ELT was originally a Marxist guerrilla group supported by the Soviet Union, but after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the ELT began kidnapping people for ransom to fund their operations. The ELT was soon powerful enough to seize the cocaine trade in Tecala, supposedly the second-largest producer after Colombia (in real life, Bolivia is the second-largest cocaine producer).
The ELT is still at war with the government, participating in military skirmishes and carrying out terrorist bombings in the capital city of Tecala. Maps show Tecala to be landlocked, although which countries surround it is unclear (a map shows that the southern border of Tecala resembles the Ecuador-Peru border).
Tecala also has oil wealth, which the U.S. hopes will overtake cocaine as the primary industry in Tecala. The population of Tecala are known as the Tecalefto people.
The film critics gave the film mixed reviews.
Critic Stephen Holden, who writes for The New York Times, did not think the film worked well and the actors did not connect. He wrote, "[the film has] a gaping lack of emotional connection among the characters in a romantic triangle that feels conspicuously unromantic...what ultimately sinks this stylish but heartless film is a flat lead performance by the eternally snippy Meg Ryan...Ms. Ryan expresses no inner conflict, nor much of anything else beyond a mounting tension. Even when her wide blue eyes well up with tears, the pain she conveys is more the frustration of a little girl who has misplaced her doll than any deep, empathetic suffering."[2]
| Ratings | |
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| Argentina: | Atp |
| Australia: | M |
| Chile: | TE |
| Denmark: | 15 |
| Finland: | K-15 |
| France: | U |
| Germany: | 12 |
| Iceland: | 14 |
| Malaysia: | 18PL |
| Netherlands: | 16 |
| Norway: | 15 |
| Portugal: | M/12 |
| Singapore: | PG |
| Spain: | 7 |
| Sweden: | 15 |
| United Kingdom: | 15 |
| United States: | R |
- Meg Ryan as Alice Bowman
- Russell Crowe as Terry Thorne
- David Morse as Peter Bowman
- Pamela Reed as Janis Goodman
- David Caruso as Dino
- Anthony Heald as Ted Fellner
- Stanley Anderson as Jerry
- Gottfried John as Eric Kessler
- Alun Armstrong as Wyatt
- Michael Kitchen as Ian Havery
- Margo Martindale as Ivy
- Mario Ernesto Sánchez as Arturo Fernandez
- Pietro Sibille as Juaco
- Vicky Hernández as Maria
- Norma Martínez as Norma
- Diego Trujillo as Eliodoro
- Aristóteles Picho as Sandro
- Sarahi Echeverría as Cinta
- Carlos Blanchard as Carlos
- Raúl Rodríguez as Tomas
- Mauro Cueva as Rico
Nominations
- Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Blockbuster Entertainment Award; Favorite Actor - Suspense, Russell Crowe; Favorite Actress - Suspense, Meg Ryan; Favorite Supporting Actor - Suspense, David Caruso; Favorite Supporting Actress - Suspense, Pamela Reed; 2001.
- Satellite Awards: Golden Satellite Award; Best Original Score, Danny Elfman; 2001.
- ^ Proof of Life at the Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Holden, Stephen. The New York Times, film review, "Where Cynicism Rules, Integrity Can Be Heroic," December 8, 2000.
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