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Release year: 2004

Storyline

A successful business owner is kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote forest, forcing his wife to work with the FBI for his release. As time runs out, the crisis leads them to rediscover their bond and what matters most.

Top credits

Directors

Pieter Jan Brugge

Writers

Cast

Robert Redford — Wayne Hayes
Willem Dafoe — Arnold Mack
Helen Mirren — Eileen Hayes
Alessandro Nivola — Tim Hayes

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Did you know

• True story, based on the kidnapping of Gerrit Jan Heijn, CEO of the Dutch Ahold Supermarket Holding. On September 9, 1987, Heijn was kidnapped and killed on the same day by Ferdi Elsas, an unemployed engineer. Elsas, however, demanded ransom money from the victim's family, thereby fuelling their hopes that Heijn was still alive for several weeks. The family paid the ransom, but Elsas did not respond to any of their subsequent pleas to return the victim safely. Elsas was arrested about seven months later when he was caught spending some of the ransom money; he admitted to the kidnapping and murder, and told the Police where the body was buried. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison. Released in 2001, he moved to a small town with his wife. On August 3, 2009, he was riding his bicycle and failed to give right of way to a digger, which ran him over, leading to his death on the same day.

• During the fight scene in the woods, Willem Dafoe cracked a rib when Robert Redford's stunt double Dan Shea rammed into him, tackling him to the ground during the shooting.

• Based on a true story of a kidnapping that occurred in The Netherlands.