Mercury Rising (1998)

Directed by

Harold Becker

Genre

drama film, action film, crime film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 1,684 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An autistic boy accidentally deciphers a classified government code. An FBI agent goes on the run to protect the boy from assassins who want to silence him.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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