Ransom
“Someone is going to pay.”
Director
Ron Howard
Screenplay
Richard Price, Alexander Ignon
Mel Gibson plays a wealthy airline executive whose young son is kidnapped for ransom, and who, after cooperating with police at first, makes the explosive decision to instead publicly broadcast the ransom money as a bounty on the kidnappers' heads rather than pay them, a gamble that escalates the danger to his son but refuses to reward the crime. Director Ron Howard builds the film as a tense psychological standoff between Gibson's increasingly unpredictable father and Gary Sinise's calculating, embittered former cop turned kidnapper. The film's willingness to have its hero take a genuinely dangerous, morally ambiguous gamble with his own child's life distinguished it from more formulaic kidnapping thrillers of the era. It was a substantial commercial success and remains one of the more tightly constructed entries in Gibson's 1990s run of star-vehicle thrillers.
Release
Nov 8, 1996
Budget
$80M
Country
United States of America
Revenue
$309M
Cast
Mel Gibson
Tom Mullen
Rene Russo
Katherine Mullen
Gary Sinise
Det. Jimmy Shaker
Delroy Lindo
Agent Lonnie Hawkins
Lili Taylor
Maris
Brawley Nolte
Sean Mullen
Liev Schreiber
Clark Barnes
Donnie Wahlberg
Cubby Barnes
Evan Handler
Miles Roberts
Nancy Ticotin
Agent Kimba Welch
Michael Gaston
Agent Jack Sickler
Kevin Neil McCready
Agent Paul Rhodes
José Zúñiga
David Torres
Dan Hedaya
Jackie Brown
Paul Guilfoyle
Wallace
John Ortiz
Roberto
Peter Anthony Tambakis
Nelson
Daniel May Wong
Agent Sam
Donna Hanover
News Reporter
Anton Evangelista
FBI Agent
Joe Bacino
Cop #1
James Georgiades
Cop #3
Christian Maelen
Cop #4
David Vadim
Cop #5
Michael Countryman
Bank Manager
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Ransom
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