Taken (also titled 96 Hours and The Hostage) is a 2008 English-language French action-thriller film written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, and directed by Pierre Morel. It stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Katie Cassidy, Leland Orser, and Holly Valance. Neeson plays Bryan Mills, a former CIA operative who sets about tracking down his teenage daughter Kim (Grace) and her best friend Amanda (Cassidy) after the two girls are kidnapped by Albanian human traffickers while traveling in France during a vacation.
- Starring : Liam Neeson / Maggie Grace
- Genre : Action / Thriller
- Country : France / United States
- Language : English / French / Albanian / Arabic
- Director : Pierre Morel
- Production : EuropaCorp / M6 Films / Grive Productions / Canal+ / TPS Star / M6 / Seaside Film Taken / All Pictures Media / Twentieth Century Fox
- Distributor : 20th Century Fox Argentina / 20th Century Fox / 20th Century Fox de Venezuela / ACME / Audio Visual Entertainment / Belga Films / Bioscop / Blitz / Cathay-Keris Films / EuropaCorp. Distribution / Festive Films / Hispano Foxfilms S.A.E. / Hurtom / Independent Films / J-Bics / Magic Box / MediaPro Distribution / Monolith Films / NOS Audiovisuais / Queen Film / SPI International / Scanbox Entertainment / Studio 2.0 / Tayangan Unggul / Twentieth Century Fox C.I.S. / Twentieth Century Fox / United International Pictures (UIP) / Vie Vision Pictures / Viva International Pictures / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / 2BE / Digital Factory International / Film1 / Fox Network / Fox Pathé Europa / Gativideo / Home Box Office (HBO) / RTL Entertainment / Television / Warner Home Video
Taken movie
Taken release date
- February 27, 2008 : France
- March 20, 2008 : Israel
- August 8, 2008 : Spain
- August 14, 2008 : Australia
- September 26, 2008 : UK
- September 26, 2008 : Ireland
- October 30, 2008 : United Arab Emirates
- January 30, 2009 : Canada
- January 30, 2009 : USA
- February 19, 2009 : Germany
- March 6, 2009 : Sweden
- March 11, 2009 : Philippines
- April 16, 2009 : Singapore
- August 22, 2009 : Japan
Taken cast
- Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills
- Maggie Grace as Kim
- Leland Orser as Sam
- Jon Gries as Casey
- David Warshofsky as Bernie
- Holly Valance as Sheerah
- Katie Cassidy as Amanda
- Xander Berkeley as Stuart
- Olivier Rabourdin as Jean-Claude
- Gérard Watkins as St-Clair
- Famke Janssen as Lenore
- Marc Amyot as Pharmacist
- Arben Bajraktaraj as Marko
- Radivoje Bukvic as Anton (as Rasha Bukvic)
- Mathieu Busson as Undercover Agent
Taken was released in France on 27 February 2008 by EuropaCorp, and later in the United States on 30 January 2009 by 20th Century Fox. The movie grossed more than $226 million. Despite mixed reviews from critics, numerous media outlets cited the film as a turning point in Neeson’s career that redefined and transformed him to an action film star. The first film in the Taken franchise, the film was followed by two sequels-Taken 2 and Taken 3-released in 2012 and 2014, respectively. A television series premiered in 2017 on NBC, with Clive Standen portraying a younger Bryan Mills.
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