They took his daughter. He'll take their lives.
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.
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Character
Earnest, contemporary, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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Cast
- Liam NeesonBryan Mills
- Maggie GraceKim Mills
- Famke JanssenLenore St. John
- Olivier RabourdinJean-Claude Pitrel
- Katie CassidyAmanda
- Nicolas GiraudPeter
- Leland OrserSam Gilroy
- Jon GriesMark Casey
- Holly ValanceSheerah
- David WarshofskyBernie Harris
Crew
- Pierre MorelDirector
- Luc BessonWriter
- Robert Mark KamenWriter
- Michel AbramowiczDirector of Photography
- Nathaniel MéchalyOriginal Music Composer
- Frédéric ThoravalEditor
- Pierre-Ange Le PogamProducer
- Luc BessonProducer
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