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Proof of Life (2000) -- Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
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Overview

User Rating:
6.1/10   21,633 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Tony Gilroy (written by)
William Prochnau (article) (inspiration)
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Release Date:
8 December 2000 (USA) more
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. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
5 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(49 articles)
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User Reviews:
Maybe A Little Old Fashioned To Be Truly Effective more (247 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Prueba de vida (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
Доказательство жизни (Russia) [ru]
Apodeixi zois (Greece) [el]
Dokaz zivljenja (Slovenia) [sl]
L'échange (France) [fr]
Lebenszeichen (Germany) (short title) [de]
Lebenszeichen - Proof of Life (Germany) [de]
Livstecken (Finland: Swedish title) [sv]
Livstegn (Denmark) [da]
Preuve de vie (Canada: French title) [fr]
Prova de Vida (Brazil) [pt]
Rapimento e riscatto (Italy) [it]
Todistettavasti elossa (Finland) [fi]
Yasam kaniti (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Znak zivljenja (Slovenia) [sl]
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence, language and some drug material.
Runtime:
135 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
One of the names of the hostages on the white board in the London Office is "Idziak" - the director of photography for this film is Slawomir Idziak. more
Goofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The grenade Dino throws into the hut is a noise/flash distraction device, commonly called a "flashbang." Flashbang grenades do not detonate and fragment like antipersonnel grenades, so it would be normal to see the spent grenade body lying on the floor. more
Quotes:
Alice Bowman: Things don't happen for a reason. They just happen. more
Movie Connections:
References Soldier of Fortune (1955) more
Soundtrack:
I'll Be You Lover, Too more

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19 out of 28 people found the following review useful.
Maybe A Little Old Fashioned To Be Truly Effective, 13 March 2005
6/10
Author: Theo Robertson from Isle Of Bute, Scotland

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

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