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Mel Gibson
Rene Russo
Gary Sinise
Delroy Lindo
Lili Taylor
Brawley Nolte

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The owner of a rich airline is willing to do anything to get his son back, including giving the kidnappers $2 million in ransom. When the drop goes bad, he turns the tables and instead offers the money to anyone willing to take on the kidnapper and return his son. -- Chris aka Tarkin

08/26/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Give me my son!!!!

Ransom is an excellent, intense movie with a strong cast, a great script, and an excellent director all rolled up into one. The film was released on November 8, 1996 from Touchstone Pictures and in my opinion was one of the best films of 1996. The film stars Mel Gibson as Tom Mullen, a wealthy businessman who runs an airline company which is the fourth highest airline in the world. He's married to his wife, Kate played by Rene Russo(who was great in Tin Cup and Lethal Weapon 4). They have everything in the world that they wanted, but it all crashes when their son, Sean played by Brawley Nolte(real life son of Nick Nolte) is kidnapped by NYC detective Jimmy Shaker played by Gary Sinese. Shaker wants 2 million dollars in cash with 50's and 100's and no marked bills or Sean will die. The cat...

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3.5/4 

12/24/2007 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Ransom

A solid thriller from the mid-90's. Although I felt like some scenes were a bit slow, the last forty-five minutes were excellent. I guess one of the things I found that is most interesting from this film is Mel Gibson's character. I was surprised about how daring he was when he risked his son's life: initially two million dollars for anyone who catches the kidnappers. At times, it seems as though his character is on the verge of madness so it was kind of hard to trust him. I even thought that perhaps he was the surprise mastermind of the kidnapping--he became that scary. It was a nice twist to this kidnapping crime thriller subgenre and I would recommend this film to anyone who is interested in fine performances.

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3/4