The Negotiator
He frees hostages for a living. Now he's taking hostages to survive.
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- Action
- Drama
- Crime
- Thriller
Overview
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.
Keywords
- corruption
- murder
- hostage
- police
- pension
- conspiracy
- urban setting
- chicago
- illinois
- bullet wound
- innocence
- hostage-taking
- negotiator
- chicago, illinois
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 29, 1998
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Germany, United States of America
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures,Regency Enterprises,Taurus Film,Mandeville Films,Monarchy Enterprises B.V.
- Cast
- Samuel L. Jackson,Kevin Spacey,David Morse,Ron Rifkin,John Spencer,J.T. Walsh,Siobhan Fallon Hogan,Paul Giamatti,Regina Taylor,Bruce Beattyand 55 more
- Director
- F. Gary Gray
- Writer
- James DeMonaco,Kevin Fox
- Cinematography
- Russell Carpenter
- Music
- Graeme Revell
- Budget
- $50,000,000
- Revenue
- $44,547,681
- IMDb
- tt0120768