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(2000)Directed by Taylor Hackford135 min · RThriller, Action, Drama

“For her, it's personal. For him, it's a contract.”

In a South American country where anti-government rebels hold the roads, the engineer Peter Bowman (David Morse) is taken, and the rebels set his price at $5 million. His employer is close to insolvent and won't pay, so his wife Alice (Meg Ryan) hires Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe), a freelance hostage negotiator. Taylor Hackford keeps the stakes on one phone line, where every call is a chance to hear that Peter is still alive.