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Ransom
1996
· Movie
· 121 min
C
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2901
- IMDb #2844
- Rotten Tomatoes #2597
- Metacritic #2623
- Letterboxd #2921
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2552
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3127
- Metacritic Critics #2377
- Metacritic Audience #3050
- Criticker #2425
- Douban #1404
- Kinopoisk #1528
- AlloCiné #3376
- Trakt #2700
Every rating
41–88
out of 100
A wealthy airline executive's young son is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand a massive ransom. After following the FBI's instructions fails, the desperate father makes a radical decision on live television: he turns the ransom into a bounty on the kidnappers' heads. This bold move triggers a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, turning the tables on the captors and putting everyone at risk.
Details
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Writers
- Alexander Ignon, Richard Price
- Released
- 8 November 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $80.0M
- Box office
- $309.5M
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