Release Date: 6/19/2001 Original Release: 2000 Format: DVD Length: 135 minutes Rating:R (MPAA) Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable) UPC: 085391905226 Studio: Warner Home Video
Around the world, between 20,000 and 50,000 people are kidnapped each year. In Taylor Hackford's suspense-filled adventure film, American businessman Peter Bowman (David Morse) is traveling in a Latin American country when a group of criminals take him as their hostage and hold him for ransom. The megacorporation he works for sends in an expert hostage negotiator, Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe), to settle on a ransom with the kidnappers, an antigovernment faction. Thorne earns the reluctant trust of Bowman's wife, Alice (Meg Ryan), and begins trying to win Bowman's freedom, but conflict with Bowman's employers, missteps with the kidnappers, and Thorne's growing attraction to Alice threaten to derail his efforts. Crowe and Ryan are excellent as thrown-together allies under pressure, and Morse's descent from collected businessman to desperate hostage anchors the film. Watch for former NYPD BLUE sensation David Caruso as Crowe's partner. PROOF OF LIFE is based on an article entitled "Adventures in the Ransom Trade," written by William Prochnau, which was published in the May 1998 issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
DVD Features
Region 1 Snap Case Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35 Letterbox - 2.35 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Additional Release Material: Documentary: Behind-the-Scenes: THE MAKING OF PROOF OF LIFE Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer Audio Commentary: Taylor Hackford - Director
Related Items
People who purchased Proof of Life DVD also purchased:
With a top notch score by Danny Elfman and a plethora of fine actors, this was a movie worth watching more than once. After Gladiator, Russell Crowe is now A-list. He proved he can act in The... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
