What could be worse for a father than to sit helplessly on the end of a cellphone connection as his daughter is abducted? That’s the nightmare that becomes reality for Bryan, a former secret agent, who has a only few hours to grab Kim back from a fearsome gang that specializes in selling young women. The first problem Bryan has to solve is that he’s in Los Angeles and Kim was taken in Paris.
Taken is an English-language French action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel, written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, and starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Holly Valance, Katie Cassidy, Xander Berkeley, Olivier Rabourdin, Gérard Watkins, and Famke Janssen. It is the first film in the Taken film series.
Neeson plays a former CIA operative named Bryan Mills who sets about tracking down his daughter after she is kidnapped by human traffickers for sexual slavery while traveling in France. Numerous media outlets have cited the film as a turning point in Neeson’s career that redefined and transformed him to an action film star.
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Taken
Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, Goran Kostic, Katie Cassidy, Holly Valance
Directed by: Pierre Morel
Screenplay by: Luc Besson
Release Date: January 23, 2009
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for for intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, some drug references and language.
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $142,213,406 (65.1%)
Foreign: $76,179,630 (34.9%)
Total: $218,393,036 (Worldwide)