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Mercury Rising
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Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action, thriller, crime, and drama film directed by Harold Becker and produced by Brian Grazer, with a screenplay by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal. Set in Chicago and South Dakota, and filmed in Chicago, it stars Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, and Chi McBride, with cinematography by Michael Seresin, a score by John Barry, and editing by Peter Honess. Its central subject is autism. The film was produced by Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment and distributed by Netflix.
Rated R, it ran 111 minutes, had a budget of 60,000,000, earned 93,100,000 at the box office, and received 2 wins in total.
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6.3Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.
Cast
- Bruce Willis as Art Jeffries
- Alec Baldwin as Nicholas Kudrow
- Miko Hughes as Simon Lynch
- Chi McBride as Tommy B. Jordan
- Kim Dickens as Stacey
- Robert Stanton as Dean Crandell
Themes
- assassin
- undercover agent
- loss of loved one
- fbi
- autism
- bangkok, thailand
- national security agency (nsa)
- child in peril
- conspiracy
- asperger's syndrome
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Ratings
IMDb
6.1/10
80,918 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
21%
Metacritic
37/100
- Year
- 1998
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 2 wins total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Harold Becker
- Screenplay by
- Lawrence Konner Mark Rosenthal
- Based on
- Simple Simon , by Ryne Douglas Pearson
- Produced by
- Brian Grazer Karen Kehela
- Starring
- Bruce Willis Alec Baldwin Miko Hughes Chi McBride Kim Dickens
- Cinematography
- Michael Seresin
- Edited by
- Peter Honess
- Music by
- John Barry
- Production company
- Imagine Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release date
- April 3, 1998 ( 1998-04-03 )
- Running time
- 111 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $60 million
- Box office
- $93.1 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- autism
- Director
- Harold Becker
- Screenwriter
- Mark Rosenthal
- Cast member
- Hank Harris
- Composer
- John Barry
- Producer
- Brian Grazer
- Production company
- Imagine Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Michael Seresin
- Narrative location
- South Dakota
- Filming location
- Chicago
- Duration
- 108
- FilmAffinity ID
- 830550
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1998-05-28
- film editor
- Peter Honess
- title
- Mercury Rising
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 21%
- capital cost
- 60000000
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Encyclopedic overview
Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Harold Becker, the film 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 (played by Miko Hughes), who is targeted by government assassins after he cracks a top secret government code.
Mercury Rising was released by Universal Pictures on April 3, 1998 to mostly negative reviews from critics and grossed $93.1 million at the box office against a $60 million budget.
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