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Mercury Rising

Genre
Action
Rating
R
Released
3 April, 1998
Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Harold Becker, the movie is based on Ryne Douglas Pearson's 1996 novel originally published as Simple Simon, which was the working title of the film. Willis plays Art Jeffries, an undercover FBI agent who protects a nine-year-old autistic boy, Simon Lynch, who is targeted by government assassins after he cracks a top secret government code. The film is the first of two collaborations between Willis and Baldwin, the second film being Motherless Brooklyn. The film was released on April 3, 1998. It received mostly negative reviews and grossed $93 million at the box office.

Directeur Harold Becker
Produced by Brian Grazer, Karen Kehela
Screenplay by Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
Starring Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens
Music John Barry, Carter Burwell
Cinematography Michael Seresin
Edited by Peter Honess
Production, company Imagine Entertainment
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Released April 03, 1998 (United States)
Running time 111 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $60 million
Box office $93.1 million
Netflix ID 17687517

Over Mercury Rising

A renegade FBI agent is tasked with protecting a young autistic boy who has cracked the government's new unbreakable security codes. The boy has the ability to read and decipher the complex MERCURY encryption codes. The film was directed by Harold Becker.

Prestaties van Mercury Rising

The film is an adaptation of Ryne Douglas Pearson 1996 novel Simple Simon. Actor Bruce Willis received a nomination for the Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor for his performance.

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