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Mercury Rising (1998)

R04/03/1998Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller1h 51m
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Someone knows too much.

Overview

Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Bruce Willis

    Art Jeffries

  2. Cast 1

    Alec Baldwin

    Nicholas Kudrow

  3. Cast 1

    Miko Hughes

    Simon Lynch

  4. Cast 1

    Chi McBride

    Tommy B. Jordan

  5. Cast 1

    Kim Dickens

    Stacey

  6. Cast 1

    Robert Stanton

    Dean Crandell

  7. Cast 1

    Bodhi Elfman

    Leo Pedranski

  8. Cast 1

    Carrie Preston

    Emily Lang

  9. Cast 1

    Lindsey Ginter

    Peter Burrell

I'd have to admit that at the start - however politically incorrect it is to say - I though that the mix of Bruce Willis as an independently minded FBI agent and Miko Hughes ("Simon") as a boy genius with very loud, and annoying, autism was going to be a difficult film to sit through. Luckily, the initial in-your-face character establishment settles down and the somewhat preposterous plot takes over quite quickly. The US Government runs a competition to see whether anyone can decipher it's supposedly unbreakable "Mercury" code and young Mr. Hughes is genuinely convincing as the young lad who c...