"Four million dollars the hard way in the Big Easy."

1998

1h 37m

5.7(67 votes)

Thriller

Crime

Drama

Overview

The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Carla Gugino

Coco Chavez

Simon Baker

Junior Armstrong

Emma Thompson

FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins

Alan Rickman

Detective David Friedman

Gil Bellows

Lizard Browning

Til Schweiger

Ruben Rubenbauer

Hal Holbrook

Senator Rupert Hornbeck

Philip Baker Hall

Pobby Malavero

Greg Wise

Ben Dyson

Lisa Eichhorn

Mary-Ellen Floyd

Creative team

Directed by: Sebastian Gutierrez
Written by: Sebastian Gutierrez
Deanna Fuller
Produced by: Beau Flynn
Stefan Simchowitz

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