96 HOURS

HOME BACK	96 HOURS (2008)	EMM#: 4 Added: 08.06.2010
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Video:	16:9 720x576 (25 Fps - )		Liam Neeson
Genre:	Action ()
Director:	Pierre Morel		Maggie Grace
Length:	1 h 33 min - 93 min
Trailer:	96 HOURS Trailer		Leland Orser
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Plot: | Synopsis
Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Secret Service to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanese gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend. <br><br> <br> Written by <br> Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Plot Synopsis:<br>-------------------<br><br>  Bryan (Liam Neeson) is a retired Government Agent. He is at an electronics store and is carefully choosing a karaoke device for his beloved 17-year-old daughter Kim's (Maggie Grace) birthday. Arriving at a luxury mansion, Kim's mother Lenore (Famke Janssen) is very rude to him. Criticizing his choice of a gift and that he has even showed in the first place. The daughter is extremely pleased with her gift however is soon distracted by her wealthy step fathers (Xander Berkeley) gift of a large horse. Later, eating alone in a small modest apartment, three friends drop by for cards and beer. One of them invites Bryan to make some quick cash working security with them escorting a female pop star to her nearby concert. After her vocal warm-up Bryan asks the pop star Sheera (Holly Vance), for advice to give his daughter who also wishes to be a singer. Sheera answers, Don't become one." At the concert things get anxious for a moment when security is distracted by a mob of fans breaking through. Bryan escorts Sheera away from the crowd but is confronted with a knife-wielding assailant that he quickly takes down. As a Thank You, Sheera offers to help Bryan's daughter with a vocal coach and a manager if she has any natural talent.<br><br>Later, Bryan gets a phone call from Kim inviting him to lunch. He is very excited and plans to let her know about Sheera's offer. However, Lenore comes to the lunch also and it becomes clear he was only invited to sign the parental consent Kim needs to take a vacation to Paris with her friend Amanda (Katie Cassidy). Bryan is reluctant to agree, knowing of the dangers of the wrong parts of Paris, but Kim explains she'll be staying with Amanda's cousins and spend most of her time in museums. Bryan says he will consider the matter which Kim takes as a NO and runs away crying. Lenore tears into Bryan for being such an a**hole and that he is too cautious. She wants the daughter to go and experience life. The next day Bryan shows up at the Stuart mansion with the signed consent, a pre-paid international cell phone, and some conditions. 1) He must take her to the airport. 2) She is to call him when she lands in Paris. And 3) She is to call him every night and tell him the address and phone number of any new place at which she will be sleeping. At the airport as Bryan is retrieving her luggage from the car he sees a map of Europe with several cities circled in a pocket of Kim's luggage. He confronts Lenore who admits the girls are actually going to follow U2's European tour, not just stay in Paris. Bryan is angry but it is too late to do anything about it.<br><br>In Paris while standing in the line for a taxi cab outside the airport, the two girls meet a friendly, handsome young Parisian named Peter (Nicolas Giraud). He suggests they all share a taxi for the expensive ride downtown. Amanda immediately accepts and Kim reluctantly agrees. While they wait, they have Peter take their picture with Kim's phone. Chivalrous Peter has the taxi drop the girls off first. He invites them to a party that very night which Amanda eagerly accepts. As the taxi pulls away, Peter makes a quick phone call--he simply says "2 girls about 18" and the address of the apartment. Upstairs, Kim inquires where the cousins are at. Amanda breezily announces the cousins are on vacation in Spain and giggly announces as she jumps on the couch that she plans to have sex with Peter later on.<br><br>Back in the US, a concerned Bryan checks the arrival information and finds out Kim's plane has landed. Bryan attempts to call Kim's phone, however Amanda has cranked the music in the apartment to such a volume that neither girl hears Kim's phone ring. Finally, Bryan gets a hold of Kim. Kim walks around to the other side of the loft (shaped like a square with a courtyard in between) to get away from the loud music. While they talk Kim can see Amanda across the courtyard. As she talks to her dad she sees two men grab Amanda and carry her body away from view while Amanda kicks and fights. Panicked, Kim tells Bryan what she just saw, who immediately takes control and orders her to go into the nearest bedroom and hide under the bed. He asks how many men she saw..she thinks four. "Now", he tells her, "you must listen very closely to me....you are going to be taken." And he tells her that she must scream out any description of them she can. Bryan hooks up a tape recorder to his phone. Two men enter the bedroom and are puzzled they haven't found the second girl. They converse in a foreign language. Bryan tells Kim to hold the phone towards the men so he can hear their conversation. The two men appear to have left the room and Kim is relieved and tells her dad they left, when suddenly Kim is snatched from under the bed. Bryan hears her scream for a few more seconds, then after a moment of quiet, Bryan hears heavy breathing. Bryan tells the kidnapper, "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you." ...The kidnapper responds with a thick accent, "Good Luck".<br><br>Bryan sends the taped conversation to Sam, his ex-agency friend from the concert. Bryan then storms over to Stuart's and confronts him about possible business enemies of Stuart arranging Kim's kidnapping. Stuart and Lenore are surprised about how much of Stuart's business Bryan knows. Satisfied with Stuart's answers, Bryan tells Stuart he needs a private jet to Paris "2 hours ago". He searches through Kim's room and all her items for a clue. Meanwhile he is on the speaker phone with Sam so Lenore can hear, who provides a detailed report that identifies the language as Albanian and even he narrows it down to one particular area of Albania. Sam tells him the Albanians kidnap girls for prostitution and Bryan has at most 96 hours (four days) before Kim will disappear forever.<br><br>In Paris, Bryan first gains access to the girl's apartment. He visualizes the abduction from the clues left behind at the scene and finds and recovers the memory card from the smashed cellphone. At a do-it-yourself photo kiosk he finds the picture Peter took at the airport and zooms in on a reflection of Peter in the photo. At the airport Peter is using the same "share a taxi" line with a Swedish blond. Bryan assaults Peter to find out about the girls from yesterday. However a large man, (Peter's accomplice?) tries to stop Bryan. As Bryan fights off the large man, Peter runs away. Bryan disposes of the man and gives chase stealing the taxi cab. Peter runs into traffic and Bryan jumps out of the taxi and chases Peter on foot. Peter then jumps over the overpass but gets hit by a truck.<br><br>Bryan then meets with an old acquaintance named Jean-Claude, who is from French Intelligence, to ask for help. The Frenchman tells Bryan where the Albanian-pimped hookers are located but warns Bryan to stay out of it and to not cause any problems. As Bryan leaves he sets up a tail to follow him. After getting a rental car, Bryan hires an Albanian translator and meets him at the hooker area, first telling him to wait in the car. Bryan then deliberately wastes a prostitute's time so her pimp will come over to rough up the mild-mannered Bryan and demand some money. Bryan then plants a listening device on the pimp unbeknown to him. Back in the car, Bryan has the translator listen to the audio feed from the bug and translate the Albanian conversation. They talk about having trouble with some new merchandise at a nearby construction site. Bryan excuses the translator but not before getting the Albanian-English dictionary he had asked him to bring.<br><br>At the construction site, there is a long line of men waiting to get into a trailer. Bryan acts like a customer and joins the line. When Bryan reaches the head of the line, he hands the "doorman" his money and receives a scrap of paper with a single digit on it. Inside the trailer ropes have been strung with blankets draped over them to form 'rooms' on either side of a center aisle. As he walks down the aisle he looks into each 'room'. He enters one 'room" and finds a cot with a drugged up woman lying on it. She isn't Kim. She beckons him to come to her, but instead he starts pulling more blankets aside to check the other 'rooms'. Since each room has a customer, this invasion of privacy starts a ruckus. Bryan has to deal with a couple bouncers as he makes his way a long the length of the trailer. In the last room, he sees his daughter's jacket and a drugged up woman with hair like Kim. Rushing in, he finds it isn't Kim. Bryan tries to question this woman, but she is so drugged she can't talk. So Bryan carries her to a nearby Jeep, hot-wires the ignition and after a wild chase makes his escape from a swarm of angry Albanians. He drives to a quiet out-of-the-way hotel and rents two room from the owner. (another old acquaintance) In the room, Bryan rigs up an IV drip and injects the girl with a solution.<br><br>Later, Jean-Claude demands a meeting with Bryan out in the open by the river. When Jean-Claude arrives, his cell phone rings. It is Bryan saying he doesn't trust meeting Jean-Claude (until he gets Kim back). Jean-Claude says his boss hit the roof over the construction site violence. While the boss wanted Bryan arrested, Jean-Claude has convinced him to authorize instead a ticket to send Bryan back to America, "for previous services". Bryan refuses. Meanwhile Jean-Claude's men have been triangulating the source of Bryan's phone call and a squad of men burst onto a nearby rooftop. There they find a cell phone rigged with a walkie talkie, Bryan is actually on another roof nearby. Bryan walks away easily.<br><br>The girl comes back to consciousness and tells Bryan she got the jacket from another girl, all she can remember is it was at a place with a red door, the Rue Paradis. Bryan finds the red doors, walks in bold and confident, he presents Jean-Claude's business card as his own. Bryan is led past several thugs to a dirty kitchen. Four Albanians are seated around a table. Bryan tries to ascertain who is the leader but they all claim to be Marco and all from the town that Bryan's language expert had identified. Bryan gives them a story about their old police contact had been transferred and now he (Jean-Claude) will be collecting the bribes which has just gone up. After some hard bargaining, a deal is reached and Bryan thinks he has identified the figure from Kim's phone. So before he leaves, Bryan stops and says a friend gave him a note in Albanian. He hands it to the apparent leader, and asks him to translate it. The leader (the real Marco) responds "Good Luck." Bryan recognizes the voice immediately and says to him, "You don't remember me do you?.. I told you I was going to find you", and suddenly Bryan is shooting and fighting the house full of armed men. When the smoke clears, Bryan has killed all of them but Marco. Bryan searches for Kim in all the upper bedrooms of the building. He finds several women handcuffed to beds and Amanda's dead body (apparently dead due to a drug overdose). Bryan tortures Marco with electricity. After trying to tough it out Marco tells Bryan Kim was sold to a man named Saint Clair. Bryan then turns the power back on and leaves the screaming man.<br><br>Jean-Claude comes home for supper to discover Bryan is visiting like an old friend. Jean-Claude's wife tells him to put the two kids to bed. As he does, he recovers a pistol from the toilet room and tucks it into the back of his waistband. Bryan accuses Jean-Claude of being involved with the Albanians and demands to know who is Saint Clair. Jean-Claude pulls out his pistol and aims at Bryan and talks about the gap between his pay and his expenses. Bryan then tosses a handful of bullets on the dining table and tells Jean-Claude that he has been behind a desk too long if he can't tell the difference in weight between a loaded gun and an unloaded one. Bryan pulls his own pistol and repeats his demand. Jean-Claude refuses. Bryan shoots Jean-Claude 's wife in the arm, saying, "it's only a flesh wound". Jean-Claude then goes into his office and uses his computer to access police files that identify and locate Saint Clair. Bryan then tells Jean-Claude to tell the wife he is sorry for shooting her then pistol whips the Frenchman to the floor.<br><br>Again posing as Jean-Claude, Bryan gains access to a party Saint Clair is hosting. Bryan discovers Saint Clair is hosting a much darker "party" on a lower level. Bryan assumes the guise of a waiter and gains access to a darkened room facing a wall of glass. One of a series of the same type of room that encircles an open stage. On the stage are a young drugged up scantily clad woman and a handler. In each darkened cubicle a bidder presses a red button when they wish to bid. The auction ends and the girl is led away. The auctioneer announces the last and best woman of the evening's auction. An American, pure virgin; it is Kim!! Bryan pulls a gun on the buyer in this darkened room and forces him to outbid the others to purchase her, the bidding goes to 500,000. But upon leaving the room with the buyer still at gunpoint, Bryan is knocked unconscious from behind. He awakens suspended from a pipe just below the ceiling. He admits to the Englishman, Saint Clair, that he is the last girl's father. Saint Clair says, "too bad, its business and she is sold already". He then orders his henchmen to execute Bryan quietly and leaves the room. Despite being shackled to the overhead pipe, Bryan manages to wiggle the pipe loose and escape while killing the guards. Bryan meets the surprised Saint Clair standing in the elevator. Saint Clair pleads unsuccessfully for his life by saying "it was just business" and telling him that Kim will be at the docks. Bryan shoots him dead and sends the elevator up to the party. Bryan races to the the river but misses the large yacht as it cruises off down the river. Bryan drives a stolen car against one way traffic to gain position on the bridge, then jumps on to the ship as it comes underneath him. On board, an Arab Sheik lies on a bed in a robe as a group of women in veils are led to his room. Bryan fights his way through the sheik's guards and enters the bedroom, the sheik has a curved knife held to her throat. Bryan takes aim and shoots the man in the head.<br><br>Back in the US, Kim is reunited with her mother. Lenore even hugs Bryan in thanks. Later, Bryan mysteriously collects Kim and takes her to a very nice home. After he knocks he takes a step back. Pop star Sheera opens the door and over her shoulder someone sits at a piano. Sheera takes Kim by the arm while saying she had heard Kim wants to be a singer, "let's see what you've got".