Hostage

Hostage is a 2005 thriller film with Bruce Willis that was directed by Florent Emilio Siri. The film was based on a novel by Robert Crais, and was adapted for the screen by Doug Richardson. The film's plot is roughly the same as the novel; the main difference is that a complicated subplot involving the Mafia was removed and the ages of the first group of hostage-takers was lowered slightly. In the novel, Smith's employer is Sonny Benza, a crime o... More

Initial release date:

  • Mar 11, 2005

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Rating:

R (USA)

Runtime:

  • 1 h 31 min

Screenplay by:

Also known as:

  • Hostage

Film

Directed by

Florent Emilio Siri

Florent Emilio Siri (born 2 March 1965 in Moselle) is a French film director born in Lorraine. He studied cinema at the Sorbonne University and ESRA in Paris. He began his feature film career with the 1998 social film Une minute de silence (One minute of silence), and continued in 2002 with the...

Tagline:

  • Murder. Mayhem. Seduction He's the right man for the job.

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Release date(s):

Film release region Release Date Film release distribution medium
  • 2005
  • Jun 21, 2005
  • Mar 11, 2005
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Runtime:

  • 1 h 31 min
  • 1 h 53 min
  • 1 h 52 min
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Estimated budget:

Currency Amount
  • 50,000,000

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Adapted From

Hostage

Hostage is a 2001 thriller novel by Robert Crais, set in fictional Bristo Bay, California, about a small town police chief named Jeff Talley with memories of a failed hostage situation, who must negotiate the same type of situation in his own town if he wants his own family to live. The novel was...

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