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Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller crime 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...
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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.
FBI agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), who was recently demoted to a desk job after an unsuccessful negotiation during a bank robbery hostage situation, is sent to investigate and finds Simon in a...
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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 ...
Mercury Rising. 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. 1,255 IMDb 6.1 1 h 51 min 1998. X-Ray R.
Apr 3, 1998 · Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.
About this movie. arrow_forward. When an autistic boy cracks a government code, it's up to an FBI agent (Bruce Willis) to protect the kid from a...