Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
- Awards
- 5 nominations
Mario Ernesto Sánchez
- Arturo Fernandez
- (as Mario Ernesto Sanchez)
Vicky Hernández
- Maria
- (as Vicky Hernandez)
Norma Martínez
- Norma
- (as Norma Martinez)
Sarahi Echeverria
- Cinta
- (as Sarahi Echeverría)
- Director
- Writers
- Tony Gilroy
- William Prochnau(inspiration)
- Thomas Hargrove(inspiration)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
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- TriviaDuring a break in filming at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire (where Russell Crowe's character watches his son play rugby union), one of the extras asked Russell Crowe for some acting advice. After their conversation, Crowe remembered the student's serious interest in acting and sent him autographed posters and photos from his film, Gladiator (2000), and wrote a letter saying, "A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step." The extra, Henry Cavill, went on to pursue his acting career and ultimately landed the role of Superman in Man of Steel (2013), with Crowe playing his father.
- GoofsEven though the movie takes place in a fictional South American country, the Ecuadorian flag can be seen flying in many places.
- SoundtracksMala Suerte
Written by Christian Valencia
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Good actioner but what's with Meg's character?
According to the director's commentary on the DVD, Meg Ryan demanded (and got) significant rewrites to her character. Maybe Meg should stick to acting because her character is pretty unappealing. When her husband's humanitarian engineering project is unraveling and he's terribly upset, what does she do? She complains about their life traveling around the globe (a very curious scene because one of Meg's rewrites required her character to be rewritten from a country-club wife into a social activist), dredges up her miscarriage which she blames on her husband (apparently because it happened while they were both voluntarily in Africa working on aid projects), and essentially tells him to take her back to America. When he offers to do so, she reverses course and rejects the offer. After the husband is kidnapped, Meg (almost immediately) starts to fall for Russell Crowe though somewhat later she slaps HIM in the face when he's only trying to get her husband back. Finally, when the husband is rescued and returned to Meg, she looks about as thrilled as someone presented with a stinking fish. Yikes! We should be happy at movie's end but I couldn't stop from thinking that the rescued kidnapee had gone from the frying pan into the fire.
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- oldmovieman
- Nov 28, 2005
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Bằng Chứng Sự Sống
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $65,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $32,598,931
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,207,869
- Dec 10, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $62,761,005
- Runtime2 hours 15 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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