Taken(Movie, 2008)

Name: Taken
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 2008
Duration: T01:34:00
Rating: 3.7

PG-13

| 1h 34min | Genres: Action, Thriller

Rating: 3.7/5 (with 5,077 votes) 726

Taken (also titled 96 Hours and The Hostage) is a 2008 English-language French action-thriller film directed by Pierre Morel from a story written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Katie Cassidy, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser and Holly Valance. In the film, Bryan Mills is an ex-CIA officer who sets to track down his teenage daughter Kim and her best friend Amanda after they are kidnapped by Albanian human traffickers while travelling in France during a vacation. Taken was released in France on 27 February 2008 by EuropaCorp and was internationally released by 20th Century Fox. The film received mixed reviews from critics but was a huge financial success, grossing $226 million, and numerous media ou... ()

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About Taken

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.

Trailer for Taken + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Taken (2008) Trailer #1 | Classic Trailers(Trailer, 2:02)

Taken (2008) Trailer #1 | Classic Trailers (Trailer) | Trailer 1 (Trailer) | Deutscher Trailer (Trailer, DE) | Trailer (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production countries: France, United States of America (USA)

Shot in: Paris, Los Angeles (California)

Plays in: Los Angeles (California), Paris

Made by: M6 Films, Canal Plus, EuropaCorp, TPS Star, M6, Grive Productions, Wintergreen Productions, 20th Century Fox, All Pictures Media

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: Arabic (AR), English (EN), French (FR), Albanian (SQ)

Translated into 33 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 01/30/2009 (World premiere: 02/18/2008)

Cast: Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance, Famke Janssen, Xander Berkeley, Olivier Rabourdin, Nicolas Giraud, Gérard Watkins, Arben Bajraktaraj, Alban Lenoir, Camille Japy, Edwin Kruger, Fani Kołarova, George Hertzberg, Héléna Soubeyrand, Jalil Naciri, Nabil Massad, Rasha Bukvic, Anatole Taubman, Mathieu Busson, Christophe Kourotchkine, Liam Neeson

Director: Pierre Morel

Producer: Luc Besson

Screenwriter: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen

Film Editor: Frédéric Thoraval

Director of Photography: Michel Abramowicz

Composer: Nathaniel Méchaly

Performer: Nathaniel Méchaly

Production Designer: Hugues Tissandier

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"L'enlèvement"

"96 Hours - Taken"

"96 Sati"

"Taken - Io vi troverò"

Keywords: paris apartment, missing daughter, paris, france, prostitution, sex trafficking, ex special forces, rescue, kidnapping, abduction, albanian, search for daughter, ex-cia agent, army veteran

Budget: 25,000,000 USD

Revenue: 226,830,568 USD (= 907%)