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Proof of Life **** (2000, Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, David Caruso, Pamela Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1032

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Director Taylor Hackford’s 2000 thriller is the one where Meg Ryan met and fell for Russell Crowe in real life. It is a scalding, epic action thriller about kidnap and retrieval.

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Alice Bowman (Ryan) begs Terry Thorne (Russell), an expert professional negotiator, to try to free her engineer husband Peter (David Morse), abducted for a huge ransom by Latin American guerrillas. Crowe acts Ryan off the screen in a thrilling action hero performance, David Morse excels in a difficult, passive role of the victim husband, and David Caruso is sparky as Crowe’s war buddy, Dino.

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The suspenseful, high-octane movie goes into overdrive in the last half-hour for a nailbiting slam-bang finish, and it’s all pounded along by Danny Elfman’s exciting score. Tony Gilroy’s excellent screenplay is based on William Prochnau’s article Adventures in the Ransom Trade.

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Pamela Reed, Anthony Heald, Stanley Anderson, Gottfried John, Alun Armstrong, Michael Kitchen and Margo Martindale co-star.

When director Hackford complained that the star couple’s much publicised affair had ruined his film’s chances at the American box-office, Crowe called him a ‘fXXXing idiot’ and a ‘knob’.

© Derek Winnert 2014 Classic Movie Review 1032

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