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Taken is a 2008 action, crime, and thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. The movie features Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, and David Warshofsky in the cast. It was produced by Luc Besson and produced by EuropaCorp, Canal+, M6, M6 Films, Grive Productions, Seaside Film Taken, and All Pictures Media. The narrative is set in Los Angeles and Paris, focusing on prostitution and organized crime.
The film has a runtime of 90 to 94 minutes and was released on February 18, 2008, with subsequent dates in February 2009. It originated in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Distribution was handled by 20th Century Studios, EuropaCorp, and Disney+. The production cost was 25,000,000, and the revenue reached 226,800,000 to 226,830,568. The tagline is "They took his daughter. He'll take their lives." It is part of the Taken Collection.
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7.4Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.
Cast
- Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills
- Maggie Grace as Kim Mills
- Famke Janssen as Lenore St. John
- Olivier Rabourdin as Jean-Claude Pitrel
- Leland Orser as Sam Gilroy
- Jon Gries as Mark Casey
Themes
- rescue
- paris, france
- kidnapping
- prostitution
- sex trafficking
- albanian
- missing daughter
- ex special forces
- ex-cia agent
- abduction
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- Serbian
- Series
- Taken
- Main subject
- organized crime
- Director
- Pierre Morel
- Screenwriter
- Robert Mark Kamen
- Cast member
- Liam Neeson
- Composer
- Nathaniel Méchaly
- Producer
- Luc Besson
- Production company
- M6
- Cinematographer
- Michel Abramowicz
- Narrative location
- Paris
- Filming location
- Los Angeles
- Duration
- 93
- FilmAffinity ID
- 555719
- Official website
- www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/taken
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- distributed by
- Disney+
- title
- Taken
- box office
- 145000989
- different from
- Tekken
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 51/100
- capital cost
- 25000000
- publication date
- 2009-02-19
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Encyclopedic overview
Taken is a 2008 English-language French action-thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance and Famke Janssen. In the film, Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA officer, sets out to track down his teenage daughter Kim and her best friend Amanda after they are kidnapped by Albanian human traffickers while on vacation in France.
Taken was released in France on February 27, 2008. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and was a financial success, grossing $226 million against a $25 million budget. Numerous media outlets cited the film as a turning point in Neeson's career that redefined him as an action star. It also launched a franchise, consisting of two sequels and a television series.
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