A TV movie made for the HBO network.
PROLOGUE: "Between 1984 and 1992 more than fifty Western citizens were held hostage in Beirut. This film dramatizes incident which illustrate what happened to some of them."
"Dialogue has been created based on publicly available material, interviews with former hostages, their friends and relatives, diplomats, and politicians from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. No endorsement has been sought or received from depicted. To compress six years into two hours, chronology has been changed, and some events have been Amalgamated. The names of minor characters have also been altered."
"Dialogue has been created based on publicly available material, interviews with former hostages, their friends and relatives, diplomats, and politicians from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. No endorsement has been sought or received from depicted. To compress six years into two hours, chronology has been changed, and some events have been Amalgamated. The names of minor characters have also been altered."
Colin Firth and Ciarán Hinds later appeared in Circle of Friends (1995) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011).
The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Kathy Bates and Colin Firth; and one Oscar nominee: Ciarán Hinds.
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