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Mercury Rising is a 1998 action thriller film starring Bruce Willis as an FBI agent who protects an autistic boy who can crack a government code. The film is based on a novel by Ryne Douglas Pearson and was directed by Harold Becker.
Mercury Rising: Directed by Harold Becker. With Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride. Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.
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- Action, Crime, Drama
- Harold Becker
- 1998-04-03
Jan 9, 2012 · Watch the official trailer of Mercury Rising, a thriller starring Bruce Willis as an FBI agent who protects a gifted autistic boy from a secret code. The movie was directed by Harold Becker and released by Universal in 1998.
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The film opens with a hostage situation in South Dakota where FBI Agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), who, as the inside man, protects a 5 year old kid named James while trying to talk a bank robber named Edgar Halstrom (Richard Riehle) into surrendering. However, the FBI task force kills the robbers and James.
Apr 3, 1998 · Roger Ebert pans the movie as a formulaic and implausible thriller about a boy who deciphers a secret code and becomes a target of a conspiracy. He criticizes the dialogue, the plot holes, and the performances of Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, and Kim Dickens.
"Mercury Rising" stars Bruce Willis as Art Jeffries, a renegade FBI agent who combats ruthless federal agents to protect Simon (Miko Hughes), a 9-year-old autistic...
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Mercury Rising (1998) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.