Hostage (2005) on Netflix
After a failed negotiation in Los Angeles, Jeff Talley takes the police chief job in Bristo Camino. Three teenagers seize accountant Walter Smith and his children inside his home.
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Plot summary
Jeff Talley works as a hostage negotiator for the Los Angeles police. A man holds his own wife and son captive. After the standoff ends with their deaths and his own, Talley moves his family to Ventura County and becomes police chief of Bristo Camino. A year later, two brothers, Dennis Kelly and Kevin Kelly, and their accomplice Mars Krupcheck hold accountant Walter Smith and his children, Jennifer and Tommy, captive in Smith's house following a failed robbery.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hostage (2005)
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- Ben Foster's character Mars was modeled on the Bay Area horrorcore rapper Mars: novelist Robert Crais created him after a friend urged him to look into the genre, and in the film Foster strongly resembles the rapper.
