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Taken
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.
2008 · Directed by Pierre Morel · 94 min · Action · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
They took his daughter. He'll take their lives.
Crew
- Written by: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
- Cinematography: Michel Abramowicz
- Edited by: Frédéric Thoraval
- Music: Nathaniel Méchaly
- Production design: Hugues Tissandier
- Produced by: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Luc Besson
Cast
- Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills
- Maggie Grace as Kim Mills
- Famke Janssen as Lenore St. John
- Olivier Rabourdin as Jean-Claude Pitrel
- Katie Cassidy as Amanda
- Nicolas Giraud as Peter
- Leland Orser as Sam Gilroy
- Jon Gries as Mark Casey
- Holly Valance as Sheerah
- David Warshofsky as Bernie Harris
Production
- Country: France, United States of America
- Language: English, French, Arabic, Albanian
- Studios: EuropaCorp, M6 Films, Grive Productions, Seaside Film Taken
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Box office: $226,830,568
- Themes: rescue, paris, france, kidnapping, prostitution, sex trafficking, albanian, missing daughter, calm, candid, ex special forces
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