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| Devastated
by a hostage situation which resulted in the deaths of a young mother
and her child, LAPD negotiator Jeff Talley exits Los Angeles for a
low-profile job as chief of police in the low-crime town of Bristo
Camino. However, Talley finds himself exactly in the same kind of
situation he never wanted to face again when three delinquent teenagers
take a family hostage. |
(2004) Film Review |
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| CREDITS |
| Directed
by Florent Emilio Siri
Novel
by Robert Crais
Screenplay by Doug Richardson
Cast
(in credits order)
Bruce Willis .... Jeff Talley
Kevin Pollak .... Mr. Smith
Jonathan Tucker .... Dennis Kelly
Ben Foster .... Mars
Jimmy Bennett .... Tommy Smith
Michelle Horn .... Jennifer Smith
Jimmy 'Jax' Pinchak .... Sean Mack
Marshall Allman .... Kevin Kelly
Serena Scott Thomas .... Jane Talley
Rumer Willis .... Amanda Talley
Hector Luis Bustamante .... Officer Ruiz
Produced
by
Susanne Bohnet .... associate producer
Stephen J. Eads .... associate producer
Mark Gordon .... producer
Manfred D. Heid .... co-producer
Hawk Koch .... executive producer
Gerd Koechlin .... co-producer
Josef Lautenschlager .... executive producer
Arnold Rifkin .... producer
Josef Steinberger .... co-producer
Andreas Thiesmeyer .... executive producer
David J. Wally .... executive producer
David Willis .... associate producer
Bob Yari .... producer
Original Music by Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography by Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci
Film Editing by Richard Byard and Olivier Gajan
Rated
For rating reasons, go to FILMRATINGS.COM,
and MPAA.ORG.
Parents, please refer to PARENTALGUIDE.ORG
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Trailer:
QuickTime, Various
Clip - 'I am the Guy':
Windows Media Player
Clip 2:
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Clip 3 - 'Bang':
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| BOOK |
Hostage
: A Novel
by Robert Crais
Robert Crais is the real thing: a writer who keeps topping himself.
Last year, after eight popular books featuring private eye Elvis Cole
(including L.A. Requiem and Voodoo River), he produced Demolition
Angel, his first standalone suspense novel. Its complex, multidimensional
hero was a damaged cop haunted by her past failures. It worked in
that book, and it works even better in this one. Jeff
Talley, the police chief in a small Southern California town, still
has nightmares about the young hostage who died when he made the
wrong call in his previous job as a negotiator for an LAPD SWAT
team. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store
robbery and killing in Talley's town. Soon his deputies have surrounded
the house where the inept robbers have taken Walter Smith and his
two children hostage, and Talley's back in his worst dream again:
until the county sheriff's full-fledged SWAT team arrives and takes
over, he has to negotiate for their lives.
Crais
keeps the point of view moving from Talley to the punks to the hostages
as the situation unfolds in the house and on the ground. Then he
ratchets up the dramatic tension: there's something in Walter Smith's
house that a ruthless Mob boss wants, and he'll sacrifice anyone
to get it--which puts Talley's own family in danger. The action
speeds to its climax with the velocity of a heat-seeking missile,
which makes it almost criminal to slow down long enough to savor
the great writing. Take this passage, from a scene when Talley's
face-to-face with the man who's holding his own wife and daughter
hostage:
Talley
... had stepped into the Zone. It was a place of white noise where
emotions reigned and reason was meager. Anger and rage were nonstop
tickets; panic was an express. He had been all day coming to this,
and here he was: the SWAT guys used to talk about it. You went to
the Zone, you lost your edge. You'd lose your career; you'd get
yourself killed, or, worse, somebody else.
Crais
belongs in that tier of writers whose novelistic gifts transcend
the thriller category--writers like Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane,
and James Lee Burke. Hostage is a breakout. --Jane Adams
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| SYNOPSIS
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 Devastated
by a hostage situation which resulted in the deaths of a young mother
and her child, LAPD negotiator Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) exits Los
Angeles for a low-profile job as chief of police in the low-crime
town of Bristo Camino in Ventura County.
When three delinquent teenagers follow a family home intending
to steal their car, they inadvertently pick the wrong house on the
wrong day. The trio find themselves trapped in a multi-million dollar
compound on the outskirts of town owned by an accountant. Panicked,
the teenagers take the family hostage, placing Talley in exactly
the kind of situation he never wanted to face again. Soon after,
Talley readily hands authority of the hostage situation over to
the Ventura County Sheriffs Department and leaves the scene. After
it becomes clear that the Sheriff Department cannot handle the crisis,
Talley is forced to resume the command he had abandoned where the
stakes quickly evolve into a hostage situation far more volatile
and terrifying than anything he could ever imagine. Based on the
novel by Robert Crais.
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As the movie Hostage opens, hostage negotiator Jeff Talley lies on top of a building and speaks on the phone to a man in a house below. He tells the man that things can still be okay, things can be worked out…no one needs to die. On the other side of the building, a man holds up a sign indicating that officers have a clear shot. Talley responds by holding up a sign telling officers that no one needs to die today and continues to talk with those inside.
Soon, however, the captor begins to yell that it’s too late. He frantically shouts a prayer, thanking God for His grace, asking God for forgiveness. Talley leaves the rooftop and runs towards the house, shouting through the man’s prayers, telling him that only God should decide who lives and who dies, pleading with him to wait so they can pray together. Then gunshots explode.
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