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True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
Hostages
1992 Directed by David Wheatley
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Kathy Bates Colin Firth Ciarán Hinds Natasha Richardson Jay O. Sanders Josef Sommer Harry Dean Stanton Stephen Dillane Tony Doyle Colin Stinton Rosaleen Linehan Ruth McCabe Conrad Asquith Colin Bruce Colum Convey Harry Ditson John Pickles Amir M. Korangy Brian McGrath Juliano Mer-Khamis Raad Rawi Sami Samir Rolf Saxon Dan Turgeman
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23 Sep 1992
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Hostages (David Wheately, 1992) 7/10
Fictionalized docudrama about the crisis in Lebanon and the Middle East during the 1980s when British (Colin Firth), Irish (Ciaran Hinds) and American (Harry Dean Stanton) hostages were kidnapped by different Muslim factions. The film focuses on the families (Natasha Richardson, Kathy Bates) going from pillar to post as the various governments either refuse to negotiate or do so by supposedly providing missiles (to Iran - which President Reagan denied) - in an attempt to broker a release. Extremely brutal recreation of the events showing the torture and squalid living conditions of the hostages during their long incarceration. The screenplay does not paint the captors as evil incarnate - they had their "reasons" - although…