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The script, by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon, adapts a long-forgotten picture from 1956 starring Glenn Ford and Donna Reed as a wealthy young couple whose little boy is kidnapped. (This version, which has an exclamation point at the end of the one-word title, shows up occasionally on TCM.)
Ransom is a 1996 American action thriller film [5] directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Richard Price and Alexander Ignon. The film stars Mel Gibson , Rene Russo , Gary Sinise , Delroy Lindo , Lili Taylor , Brawley Nolte , Liev Schreiber , Donnie Wahlberg and Evan Handler .
Nov 8, 1996 · He lives with his wife (Rene Russo) on Central Park, where they take their young son (Brawley Nolte) to a science fair. The boy is kidnapped, a ransom note arrives by anonymous e-mail, and the FBI is called even though, as Gibson observes, “The FBI just spent three months trying to bury us.”
Nov 11, 1996 · The ransom: $2 million. Tom’s wife (Rene Russo), the FBI man in charge of the case (Delroy Lindo) and everybody else involved, with conventional wisdom at their command, recommend paying up.
While millionaire airline magnate Tom Mullen and his wife Kate attend a science fair, their son Sean is kidnapped, having left their sight unexpectedly. Sean is taken to an apartment by Maris Conner, a caterer working for the Mullens; brothers Clark and Cubby Barnes; and tech expert Miles Roberts.
Nov 8, 1996 · Surrounded by the trappings of success (Manhattan penthouse, warm friendship with the mayor, Rene Russo’s beautiful Kate for a wife), Tom is feisty enough to cause 10-year-old Sean (Brawley ...
Sep 10, 2012 · The film doesn't just trade on Gibson's dangerous, lunatic machismo, it unearths a colder, more callous and more complex narcissism. His nemesis knows him so much better than his wife.
