Proof of Life

2000
R
2h 15m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

59K

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Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan in Proof of Life (2000)

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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.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

59K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 5 nominations

Arturo Fernandez
(as Mario Ernesto Sanchez)

Pietro Sibille

Juaco

Vicky Hernández

Maria
(as Vicky Hernandez)

Norma Martínez

Norma
(as Norma Martinez)

Diego Trujillo

Eliodoro

Aristóteles Picho

Sandro

Sarahi Echeverria

Cinta
(as Sarahi Echeverría)

Director
- Taylor Hackford
Writers
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Trivia
During 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.

Goofs
Even though the movie takes place in a fictional South American country, the Ecuadorian flag can be seen flying in many places.

Quotes
Dino: [sarcastically] So basically we just call the army, schedule a battle. How would Wednesday around 3 be for you?

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Proof of Life/Vertical Limit/The Emperor's New Groove/State and Main/Pollock/Dungeons and Dragons (2000)

Soundtracks
Mala Suerte
Written by Christian Valencia

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6/10

Maybe A Little Old Fashioned To Be Truly Effective

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