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Taken (2008)

Taken (2008)

PG-13 94 minutes EN Action , Thriller
They took his daughter. He'll take their lives.
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best years possibly behind him, the job may be more than he can handle.
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Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson
Bryan Mills
Maggie Grace
Maggie Grace
Kim Mills
Leland Orser
Leland Orser
Sam Gilroy
Famke Janssen
Famke Janssen
Lenore St John
Jon Gries
Jon Gries
Mark Casey
David Warshofsky
David Warshofsky
Bernie Harris
Holly Valance
Holly Valance
Sheerah
Katie Cassidy
Katie Cassidy
Amanda
Xander Berkeley
Xander Berkeley
Stuart St John
Olivier Rabourdin
Olivier Rabourdin
Jean-Claude Pitrel
Gérard Watkins
Gérard Watkins
Patrice Saint-Clair
Marc Amyot
Marc Amyot
Pharmacist
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Production crew

Nathaniel Méchaly
Original Music Composer
Michel Abramowicz
Director of Photography
Olivier Bériot
Costume Design
Frédéric Thoraval
Editor
Betsy Glick
Costume Supervisor
Corinne Bruand
Costume Design
Hugues Tissandier
Production Design
Alain Pitrel
Set Decoration
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One of my best films of all time. Apart from they made a second one, this a great movie! Liam Neeson trying to save this daughter, in France, from being sold to the highest bidder. An action packed film with good acting and great fight scenes.

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Probably not good enough to have started the Revenge-Renaissance that it somehow did, but still a pretty entertaining time. _Taken_ does hit a lot of clichés though, and I mean, it starts hitting them right away. We're literally only minutes into the film before we find out that Neeson's lead character is divorced, and his wife has re-married to a decent, rich provider, but one who's bookish and could never take him in a fight, and that the present he got for his daughter is for an interest that she no longer has. But once we get into the action proper, it's pretty great.
_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._

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Official website: http://www.takenmovie.com/
Production companies: EuropaCorp, M6 Films, Grive Productions, 20th Century Fox, Seaside Film Taken, Canal+, M6, TPS Star, All Pictures Media
Production countries: France, United States of America
Budget: $25,000,000
Revenue: $226,830,568

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PG-13 (Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Films given this rating may contain sexual content, brief or partial nudity, some strong language and innuendo, humor, mature themes, political themes, terror and/or intense action violence. However, bloodshed is rarely present. This is the minimum rating at which drug content is present.)

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