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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.
Apr 3, 1998 · 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.
Simon is a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code. This skill renders the new billion-dollar secret code vulnerable, especially if enemies of the...
Apr 3, 1998 · "Mercury Rising'' is about the most sophisticated cryptographic system known to man, and about characters considerably denser than anyone in the audience. Sitting in the dark, our minds idly playing with the plot, we figure out what they should do, how they should do it, and why they should do it, while the characters on the screen strain ...
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.
"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 boy who has...
- Mystery & Thriller, Action
An autistic 9 year-old mathematical genius cracks a government intelligence group's new security code, so the agency decides to eliminate him - and it's up to a loose cannon FBI agent to save him. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
