Mount Rushmore for Kidnapping Movies
Man on Fire, Taken, Misery, Proof of Life; Taken, Man on Fire, Who's Harry Crumb?, Ruthless People
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- A first list of four favorite kidnapping movies: Man on Fire, Taken, Misery (argued to count even though people do not think of it as a kidnap movie) and Proof of Life, which was already covered on the podcast.
- Three more on the bubble: Ransom, Fargo, and Without a Trace from around 1982 with Kate Nelligan, whose son is taken and found in the end.
- A second four-film Mount Rushmore puts Taken first and Man on Fire second, then two kidnapping comedies from childhood: Who's Harry Crum with John Candy and, after trying to recall the title, Ruthless People with Danny DeVito.
- Kidnapping comedies are preferred for the levity because kidnapping movies can get grim, and Ransom gets about as grim as it gets.