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Release year: 2008

Storyline

A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.

Top credits

Directors

Pierre Morel

Writers

Cast

Liam Neeson — Bryan Mills
Maggie Grace — Kim
Famke Janssen — Lenore
Leland Orser — Sam

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Did you know

• Liam Neeson expected the film to bomb, but he signed on in order spend four months in Paris and learn karate, while playing the kind of role he had rarely been offered in the past. Ironically, not only was the film a massive hit, but created a new on-screen image for Neeson as an action hero.

• Jeff Bridges was first cast as Bryan Mills, but after he dropped out of the project Liam Neeson accepted the part, desiring to play a more physically demanding role than he was used to. Bridges eventually saw the film, and said Neeson was a much better choice for the role.

• Over the course of the movie, Bryan kills 35 people in order to get to his daughter.