It's a hilarious dark comedy that gets better on each viewing. Frances McDormand won a deserved Oscar for her role as Marge Gunderson, the pregnant sheriff who cracks the case. Macy) comes up with a harebrained scheme to have his wife kidnapped and collect the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Spineless, failed car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (a never better William H. Pacino is a livewire throughout and it cemented his reputation as one of the best actors in Hollywood.Ī Coen Brothers classic and many would agree one of the films of the 90s.
It is amazingly based on a true story - the real-life Sonny and his partner Sal (played by John Cazale) developed a great camaraderie with the hostages and the bank manager thought they were hilarious. It goes disastrously wrong and develops into a hostage situation and a huge media event. He plays Sonny Wortzik, a nervous first-time criminal who attempts to rob a bank in order to pay for his lover's sex change operation. The Silence of the Lambs swept the Oscars in 1992 and gave us one of film's most unforgettable villains in the aforementioned Hannibal the Cannibal.Īl Pacino gave one of his greatest ever performances in this brilliant seventies flick.
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Bill keeps his victims in a pit for a few days before he kills them to make a costume out of their skin ("It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again!") It's up to Jodie Foster's FBI Agent Clarice Starling to save her, provided she can enlist Hannibal's assistance in time.
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This movie is remembered for the chilling Hannibal Lecter, but the main thrust of the plot is the kidnapping of a senator's daughter by crazy serial killer Buffalo Bill. His iconic speech to his daughter's kidnappers may have had something to do with this: Neeson himself believed that the film would go straight to DVD but the movie was a massive worldwide hit. They soon find out that they messed with the wrong hombre. He plays former CIA operative Bryan Mills, whose daughter ("teenager" Maggie Grace) gets abducted by some shady Albanian crooks to be used in a prostitution ring. The film that relaunched our Liam Neeson as a badass action hero. The less said about the awful sequel the better. Speed is a superb action-packed thriller, though it's hard to watch it these days without thinking of Dougal in the brilliant Father Ted parody.
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It's up to hero cop Keanu Reeves to save the hostages on board and he's helped by a sparky Sandra Bullock, who actually learned how to drive a bus for her role and passed her test on the first attempt. A seriously unhinged Dennis Hopper puts a bomb on a bus in LA that will explode if its speed drops below 50 mph. Or The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down as Homer Simpson likes to call it. Virtually every action star in Hollywood from Arnie to Sly Stallone turned down the role of John McClane until Bruce Willis made the grubby vest his own. Alan Rickman (in his film debut) almost steals the show as evil mastermind Hans Gruber and his verbal sparring with McClane is a delight throughout.
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A resourceful NYPD detective takes on a building full of bad guys to save a group of hostages that includes his wife, cracking out the one-liners as he goes. It had to be top of the list and it goes without saying, one of the greatest action movies of all time. We thought it was a good opportunity to list our other favourite hostage and kidnapping movies: The superb Argo is out in cinemas at the moment and you won't see a more nail-biting, edge-of-your seat thriller all year (check out Rory's glowing review here).
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