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 (played by Miko Hughes), who is targeted by government assassins after he cracks a top secret government code.
Plot
During a bank robbery hostage situation, an undercover FBI agent, Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), attempts unsuccessfully to negotiate for more time to defuse the situation. The FBI storms the bank killing the robbers, but Jeffries's cover is blown, so he is given a boring desk job.
Cast
- Alec Baldwin
- Betsy Brantley
- Bodhi Elfman
- Bruce Willis
- Camryn Manheim
- Carrie Preston
- Chad Lindberg
- Chi McBride
- Hank Harris
- Jack Conley
- James MacDonald
- John Carroll Lynch
- John Doman
- Jude Ciccolella
- Kevin Conway
- Kim Dickens
- Lindsey Ginter
- Margaret Travolta
- Miko Hughes
- Peter Stormare
- Richard Riehle
- Robert Stanton
- Steve Rankin
More details
| author | Lawrence Konner Mark Rosenthal |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Chicago South Dakota |
| director | Harold Becker |
| editor | Peter Honess |
| events | autism |
| genre | action crime drama political thriller |
| keywords | autistic bank robbery birthday party bore build business trip ceiling coffee shop crawl space decipher decipherment false pretenses fbi agent foster parents hear hostage situation kill machine gun meet morning murder-suicide national security national security agency point-blank police detective savant self-defense silence silencer task force terminate terminate with extreme prejudice witness protection write |
| musicBy | John Barry |
| producer | Brian Grazer Karen Kehela |
| productionCompany | Imagine Entertainment |
| publisher | Universal Studios |
| recordedAt | Chicago |
| theme | action drama death political thriller |