Posts Tagged ‘hostage’

48 Hrs.

Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Murphy, Eddie | O'Toole, Annette | McRae, Frank | Remar, James | Kelly, David Patrick | Landham, Sonny | James, Brion | Sherman, Kerry | Banks, Jonathan | Keane, James | King, Tara | Blackburn, Greta | Rose, Margot | Crosby, Denise
Directors: Hill, Walter
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Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect.

Rock, The

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Actors: Connery, Sean | Cage, Nicolas | Harris, Ed | Spencer, John | Morse, David | Forsythe, William | Biehn, Michael | Marcil, Vanessa | McGinley, John C. | Sporleder, Gregory | Todd, Tony | Woodbine, Bokeem | Maniaci, Jim | Collins, Greg | Kelly, Brendan
Directors: Bay, Michael
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Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Soon after his fiancĂ©e Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from FBI director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with 81 tourists, by marine General Francis Xavier Hummel, who, for years, has been protesting the government’s refusal to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The death of his wife Barbara Hummel on March 9, 1995 drove General Hummel over the edge, and now he’s holding hostages in order to get his point across. Stanley is needed because General Himmel has stolen some VX gas warheads and has announced that he will launch them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs, but Stanley needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British intelligence agent John Patrick Mason, who has been in prison for the past 30 years without a trial because he was accused of stealing the private files of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1962, John became the only inmate ever to escape from Alcatraz, and he stayed out of Alcatraz long enough to father a daughter named Jade Angelou. Despite his extreme hatred of the FBI, John agrees to help Stanley. When John and Stanley are sent into Alcatraz with a Navy SEAL team, General Hummel’s men kill the entire SEAL team, leaving Stanley and John to work on their own to rescue the hostages.

Four Brothers

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Gibson, Tyrese | Benjamin, André | Hedlund, Garrett | Howard, Terrence | Charles, Josh | Vergara, Sofía | Flanagan, Fionnula | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Henson, Taraji P. | Henley, Barry Shabaka | Burks, Jernard | Welsh, Kenneth | Nappo, Tony | Singleton, Shawn
Directors: Singleton, John
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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves.

Lookout, The

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Gordon-Levitt, Joseph | Daniels, Jeff | Goode, Matthew | Fisher, Isla | Gugino, Carla | McGill, Bruce | Watson, Alberta | Borstein, Alex | Di Zio, Sergio | Huband, David | Vandervoort, Laura | Dunham, Greg | Kelly, Morgan | Berg, Aaron | Korey, Tinsel
Directors: Frank, Scott
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An admired high school hockey player (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) with a bright future foolishly takes a drive in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend (Jeff Daniels) who aids him. Obviously, with the mental incapacitation, he is unable to have meaningful work. Thus he works as a night cleaning man in a bank. It is there he comes under the scrutiny of a gang planning to rob the bank. The leader (Matthew Goode) befriends him and gets him involved with a young woman (Isla Fisher) who further reels him in. After they get close and after reeling him in with his own failures, the bank plan unfolds. Confused but wanting to escape his current existence, he initially goes along with the scheme. After realizing he is being used, he attempts to stop the robbery, which of course immediately goes awry. Bruce McGill and Alberta Watson also co-star as the young man’s parents, who still search for the person that was there before the tragic crash.

After the Sunset

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Hayek, Salma | Harrelson, Woody | Cheadle, Don | Harris, Naomie | Penn, Chris | Williamson, Mykelti | Garity, Troy | Babatundé, Obba | Hornsby, Russell | Linn, Rex | Curtis-Brown, Robert | Moses, Mark | Bowen, Michael | Ledard, Tony
Directors: Ratner, Brett
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After a successful last score, a master thief retires to an island paradise. His lifelong nemesis, a crafty FBI agent, washes ashore to ensure he’s making good on his promise. The pair soon enters into a new game of cat-and-mouse.

Last King of Scotland, The

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Actors: Whitaker, Forest | McAvoy, James | Washington, Kerry | Anderson, Gillian | McBurney, Simon | Oyelowo, David | Mukiibi Nkaaga, Abby | Kotz, Adam | Rafferty, Barbara | Ashton, David | Foden, Giles | Williams, Andy | Amati, Martina | Salmon, Peter | Wawuyo, Michael
Directors: Macdonald, Kevin
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In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin’s closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin’s increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out.

Highwaymen

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Horror | Thriller
Actors: Caviezel, James | Mitra, Rhona | Faison, Frankie | Feore, Colm | Currie, Gordon | Roth, Andrea | Jenkins, Noam | Proctor, Toby | Kee, James | St-Onge, Guylaine | Pingue, Joe | Roach, Martin | Bell, Ron | Rutledge, Paul | Jones, Kelly
Directors: Harmon, Robert
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Since the hit-and-run murder of his wife five years ago, Rennie Cray has crisscrossed America in his souped-up, stripped-down ‘68 Plymouth Barracuda, pursuing her killer. The man he seeks in a high-speed, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse is James Fargo, a merciless, wheelchair-bound pyschopath. Through a series of mechanical innovations, Fargo has turned his rampaging ‘72 Cadillac Eldorado into a monstrous extension of his own twisted body and mind. Now, their deadly battle of wits and wills is about to move into overdrive. And caught in their headlights is a tormented beauty who unwittingly holds the key to their ultimate showdown.

Executive Decision

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Seagal, Steven | Berry, Halle | Leguizamo, John | Platt, Oliver | Morton, Joe | Wong, B. D. | Cariou, Len | Hubley, Whip | Katsulas, Andreas | Trainor, Mary Ellen | Maples, Marla | Walsh, J. T. | Neuhaus, Ingo | Jones, William James
Directors: Baird, Stuart
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Some Arabs hijack an airliner and demand the release of their leader who is in American custody. They also intend to land in Washington for refueling. At the Pentagon, everyone there advises the National Security Advisor that they should let the plane land and then let the counter terrorist team of Colonel Austin Travis take them out. But David Grant, an intelligence expert believes that this whole thing is a smokescreen. Grant believes that the Arab leader was abducted by his second in command, who is a fanatic. And that he has in his possession a biological weapon that could wipe out Washington and that it’s on the plane. Now they have only two choices let them land and hope Grant is wrong or shoot the plane down along with every one onboard. Then Colonel Travis suggests that they use this new plane that the military uses to transport men from onto another aircraft while in flight. With no other option Travis is given the go ahead. He then asks that Grant be allowed to!

Proof of Life

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Ryan, Meg | Crowe, Russell | Morse, David | Reed, Pamela | Caruso, David | Heald, Anthony | Anderson, Stanley | John, Gottfried | Armstrong, Alun | Kitchen, Michael | Martindale, Margo | Sánchez, Mario Ernesto | Sibille, Pietro | Hernández, Vicky | Martínez, Norma
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company’s subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman’s wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter’s sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne’s strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them?

Desperate Hours

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Actors: Rourke, Mickey | Hopkins, Anthony | Rogers, Mimi | Crouse, Lindsay | Lynch, Kelly | Koteas, Elias | Morse, David | Smith, Shawnee | Gerard, Danny | Bamman, Gerry | McGrath, Matt | Jones, John Christopher | Norris, Dean | Finn, John | Curry, Christopher
Directors: Cimino, Michael
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Michael Bosworth is a psychotic criminal who is about to go on trial however, he seduces his lawyer into helping him escape. But as they try to make their getaway, she’s left behind. He decides to wait for her to come to him, so he decides to hide at the house of the Cornells. Now it appears that the Cornells have problems of their own. The husband and wife are separated. And there’s an FBI agent after them who is using the lawyer to lead them to Bosworth.