Ransom Page #2

Synopsis: Tom Mullen is a millionaire, he built his fortune by working hard. Along the way he learned how to play the game. He has a great family. One day his son is kidnapped. He is willing to pay the ransom but decides to call in the FBI, who manages to go into his home secretly. When he goes to make the drop something goes wrong. The kidnapper calls him again and reschedules it. On the way Mullen decides not to go and appears on TV saying that the ransom he was going to give to the kidnapper is now a bounty on the kidnapper.
Director(s): Ron Howard
Production: Touchstone Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
R
Year:
1996
121 min
2,267 Views


Hey, hey, hey. Take it easy.

- All right? You all right?

- I'm all right.

- All right.

Honey, you better work the door.

I think the Mayor wants to leave.

Oh, thank God. You okay?

- Yeah.

- Good.

Okay, did you brush your teeth?

- I brushed them this morning.

- No, no, no. We're gonna brush them now.

45-Adam to Central-K.

207 West 30th Street.

- Two unidentified suspects...

- Hey, hey. What are they, mink?

Yeah, why? You wanna buy one?

Take a walk.

Oh, God. I'm beat.

So where was that guy from?

Daily News?

- Does it make a difference?

- Ohh! I'd like to kill those bastards.

When they come after you,

they come after us.

It's freezing.

- Oh, God.

- I'd like to come after the contractor.

- Yeah, well, you gotta find him first.

- Yeah, really.

It's freezing in here.

Oh, that feels good.

Don't let those guys

get to you, okay?

- Yeah.

- That's what they want.

I just wanna say

Singin'makes me feel so fine

Drivin'in my truck, man

I'm always on the go

Makin'my deliveries

from here to Tupelo

- Tupelo

- But singin'bass...

Okay, now I'd like to introduce

to you the person responsible

for this wonderful event.

Uh, a fantastic lady. In fact,

chairlady of theJunior Science Fair...

Mrs Katherine Mullen.

- All right! Yea!

- Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Mayor.

And welcome to the tenth annual

New York City Junior Science Fair.

We have 54 young inventors

competing today...

- representing 22 schools...

- Dad?

- Yeah?

- Why can't I enter?

Well, it wouldn't be fair, Sean.

Your mother's a judge here.

- And, uh, how would that

look if you won?

- Why don't I enter

under a different name?

- What, you mean, like John Smith?

- No. Like Professor X.

Well, I don't think you'd get

away with that, Professor X.

I mean, you're too young to have

a degree. You got to be bald,

have an eye patch. You know.

No, better.

Professor von X.

And the third judge, I regret to say,

is myself, Katherine Mullen...

Events Chair for

the 125th Anniversary of Central Park...

and former teacher of biology

at Evander Childs High School.

So let the games begin.

Ourjudges will now

begin circulating.

- So all of our inventors

should be with their booths.

- Wow. Destination: Yonkers.

That's gotta be the best project out

here. Don't you think it's gonna win?

- Whoa!

- Oh, look, there's me!

Yeah, the wind is taking it.

Down left rudder.

Remember, we're going to want

all of today's winners on stage

at 1... 00 to receive their award.

- Good luck, everybody.

- It's not fair, Dad.

I worked really hard.

I know. I know you worked really hard,

and you did an amazing job.

- But we talked about this before,

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Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, nonconformist preacher and mathematician. He was also a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He was well-connected and fostered communication between a large number of people, including several of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Price spent most of his adult life as minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, on the outskirts of London. He also wrote on issues of demography and finance, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society. more…

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