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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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