Ransom-Special Edition (1996)

"A slam-bang thriller!  People Magazine
"Tension-Packed!  Rolling Stone
"Spellbinding! First-rate!  The New York Times

Editor's Note A headstrong airline tycoon pays the ransom for his abducted son, despite the pleas of his wife and FBI agents, then must gamble on the consequences of attempting to turn the tables on the kidnapper, setting up a gut-wrenching confrontation between the anguished father and the increasingly desperate criminals. This tightly conceived nail-biter, with head-spinning plot twists, is another fine effort from the director of "Apollo 13."

	Brawley Nolte
	Gary Sinise
	Mel Gibson
	Rene Russo
	Billy Corgan - Songs By
	Brian Grazer - Producer
	Cyril Hume, et al. - Story By
	James Horner - Musical Score
	Jonathan Gold, et al. - Writer
	Piotr Sobocinski - Director of Photography
	Ron Howard - Director

Rolling Stone
"...A tension-packed thriller that will shake your head and rattle your brain..." 11/28/1996 p.141-2

Entertainment Weekly
"...Clever and exciting moments....Intense work by [Gibson]..." 12/06/1996 pp.50-1

Variety
"A crackerjack thriller with some unusually tasty plot twists, RANSOM pays plenty of entertaining dividends....The storytelling is highly efficient... 11/04/1996

Los Angeles Times
"...A persuasive thriller..." 11/08/1996 p.F1

Chicago Sun-Times
"...Gibson gives an interesting performance, showing a man trying to think his way out of a crisis, and Sinise makes a good foil..." 11/08/1996 p.35

Premiere
"RANSOM is through and through Gibson's flick: dark, vengeful..." 05/01/2004 p.102

San Francisco Examiner 8 of 10
...taut and expertly directed... it's a clever plot developed partly from a 1956 Glenn Ford film of - Barbara Shulgasser

Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
...a smarter-than-usual kidnapping thriller... Gibson gives an interesting performance, showing a ma - Roger Ebert