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Beeper (2002)

Beeper poster
Directed by
Jack Sholder
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
R
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An American doctor in India is forced to navigate the criminal underworld when his son is kidnapped. Armed only with a beeper to communicate with the captors, he teams up with a drug dealer to rescue his child.

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What happens

Beeper is a 2002 American crime thriller film directed by Jack Sholder and starring Ed Quinn, Harvey Keitel, Joey Lauren Adams and Gulshan Grover. The thriller Beeper concerns a doctor working in India whose son is kidnapped. Left with nothing more but the title device as a way to communicate with the kidnappers, the man must make his way through the seedy underground in order to rescue his son. Among the people he must team up with is a drug dealer called Zolo (Harvey Keitel). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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