Synopsis
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
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Cast
- Meg RyanAlice Bowman
- Russell CroweTerry Thorne
- David MorsePeter Bowman
- Pamela ReedJanis Goodman
- David CarusoDino
- Anthony HealdTed Fellner
- Stanley AndersonJerry
- Gottfried JohnEric Kessler
- Alun ArmstrongWyatt
- Michael KitchenIan Havery
Recommendations
- 63
New York Post
Disappointingly routine kidnapping thriller with soap-opera trimmings. - 63
USA Today
It's never enough of a grabber to keep the mind from wandering to the romance it apparently sparked. - 63
New York Daily News
The romantic subtext of their characters' relationship is the film's chief liability, and feels forced and undeveloped. - 60
Chicago Reader
Against the lush backdrop of the Andes, Crowe and Caruso define on-screen cool: good guys in a match of wits and firepower who even talk about their emotions. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
When it's dull, which it is too often for a kidnap caper, this movie is about a woman chirping ''notice anything new about my outfit?'' to a man whose idea of style is a jacket not crusted in human blood. - 50
Los Angeles Times
An ambitious film that aims to examine the human equations behind the abductions. But for all its good intentions, it's not as subtle as it might be, and it's finally pitched too broadly to achieve the level of emotional truth it aims for. - 40
Film.com
This is half a good movie held hostage to the other, trashier half, and unfortunately for all of us, no rescue seems forthcoming. - 40
Rolling Stone
Slim pickings.
