Proof of Life (2000)

Regisseur:

Taylor Hackford

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Tony Gilroy (written by)
William Prochnau (article) (inspiration)

Premierendatum:

8. Dezember 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.

Plot Keywords:

Box Office Flop | Mercenary | Helicopter | Revolving Door | Guerilla

Filmpreise:

5 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Maybe A Little Old Fashioned To Be Truly Effective

Besetzung

Meg Ryan	...	Alice Bowman
Russell Crowe	...	Terry Thorne
David Morse	...	Peter Bowman
Pamela Reed	...	Janis Goodman
David Caruso	...	Dino
Anthony Heald	...	Ted Fellner
Stanley Anderson	...	Jerry
Gottfried John	...	Eric Kessler
Alun Armstrong	...	Wyatt
Michael Kitchen	...	Ian Havery
Margo Martindale	...	Ivy
Mario Ernesto Sánchez	...	Arturo Fernandez (as Mario Ernesto Sanchez)
Pietro Sibille	...	Juaco
Vicky Hernández	...	Maria (as Vicky Hernandez)
Norma Martínez	...	Norma (as Norma Martinez)

Alternativ:

Lebenszeichen (Deutschland) (short title) [de]
Lebenszeichen - Proof of Life (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and some drug material.

Länge:

135 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch | Spanisch | Russisch | Italienisch | Französisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:14 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Malaysia:18PL | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Chile:TE | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Hong Kong:IIB | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Spain:7 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R

Drehorte:

Ecuador

Firma:

Castle Rock Entertainment

Dies und das:

Will Gaffney, stand-in for 'Morse, David' , was killed in a freak accident when a truck on which he was riding suddenly turned and drove off a cliff while being filmed in Quito, Ecuador. The movie is dedicated to Will Gaffney.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: Peter and Alice, invited to attend the charity event, can be seen sitting at their table at the party before they even entered the room.

Dialogzitate:

Ted Fellner: We're out of miracles.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in "Game K N B: (2007-03-03)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

Estas Llorando

Maybe A Little Old Fashioned To Be Truly Effective

Maureen O'Hara stars in a movie where her husband gets kidnapped those damn commies in South East Asia so she hires tough and dashing soldier of fortune Clark Gable to save the day

That's not the cast or the location of PROOF OF LIFE but it does have a very similar plot . Did someone mention this was a 1940s matinée blockbuster ? Just curious because while I was watching the movie I was struck by how old fashioned everything felt . Russell Crowe plays an Aussie who served in the SAS and saves a Frenchman from the Chechens in the opening sequence , but you could have had Gable playing an American paratrooper saving someone from the Red Army on the River Elbe in May 1945 . Different actor , different period of history , different enemy but still the same basic story with the action switching from Europe to say South East Asia in 1950

That's not to say PROOF OF LIFE is a bad film . It's not and I found it mainly entertaining though perhaps a little too long . It's just that it is so old fashioned that you can see where the predictable story threads are going to begin and end . You can't deny that both the cast and action scenes are good , it's just that you also can't stop thinking it would have been better if it'd been filmed in monochrome and directed by Michael Curtiz with no bad language or sexual references