Series

Hostage
Action, Crime, Thriller
Buena Vista (2005) 113 mins R

6.7 (30,178 votes)

Bruce Willis plays a former hostage negotiator who has moved to a sleepy town in California to get away from his old life after a negotiation goes horribly wrong and a little boy and his mother are murdered. Life is going well until a trio of teenaged thugs joy-riding in a stolen truck decide to break in to a palatial mansion in the mountains only to find that it is occupied. Things quickly fall apart when the police are notified, the patriarch is beaten into a coma, and a cop is killed by the "loose cannon" (Ben Foster) of the group. Soon Willis is back in his old role of trying to save the day and the family. Matters are complicated when he discovers the owner of the house was a bookkeeper for a shadowy organization laundering millions of dollars. They want what's inside the house, and Bruce wants to get the family out, but if he does, the laundered money inside will be taken into evid...

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Bruce Willis ...... Jeff Talley

Ben Foster ...... Mars Krupcheck

Kevin Pollak ...... Walter Smith

Michelle Horn ...... Jennifer Smith

Jonathan Tucker ...... Dennis Kelly

Rumer Willis ...... Amanda Talley

Director ..... Florent Emilio Siri

Producer ..... Mark Gordon; Arnold Rifkin

Writer ..... Doug Richardson; Robert Crais

Cinematography ..... Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci

Musician ..... Alexandre Desplat

Goofs:
Continuity: When Tommy and Jennifer are in the safe room, Mars smears a bloody hand print on the window and shoots the window three times, but when Jeff comes back to get Jennifer and Tommy, the hand print is less smeared and the bullet holes are not in the window. (more)

Trivia:
The word "fuck" is used 89 times. (more)

Filming Locations:
Azusa Canyon Inn - Highway 39, Azusa, California, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Joe Mack: I need to talk to that motherfucker! You hear me? I want to talk to that fucker right now! I want that motherfucker!
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Awards:
2 nominations (more)