Promotional poster for Hostage.

DVD cover.

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Tagline: Would you sacrifice another family to save your own?

Plot

After a failed hostage situation which resulted in the gruesome deaths of three people, veteran LAPD hostage negotiator Jeff Talley leaves Los Angeles and his family to become police chief in Bristo Camino, a peaceful suburban hamlet in Ventura County, California. A hostage is an entity which is held by a captor in order to compel another party to act or refrain from acting in a particular way. ... The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of the City of Los Angeles, California. ... The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish Los Ángeles , meaning the angels), also known as L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ... Chief of Police in United States usage is the title typically given to the head of a police department. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... Ventura County is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, located on Californias Pacific coast. ...

One year after the incident that ended his career with the LAPD, Talley finds himself in yet another hostage situation. Two teenagers and their mysterious accomplice Mars Krupchek take hostage Walter Smith and his two young children in Smith's house after a failed robbery attempt. Unwilling to put himself through yet another life-or-death situation, Talley hands authority over to the Ventura County Sheriff's Department and leaves the scene.

Unfortunately for Talley, Smith has been laundering money for a mysterious criminal syndicate through offshore shell corporations. He was preparing to turn over a batch of important encrypted files (recorded on a DVD) when he was accidentally taken hostage. To protect such incriminating evidence from discovery, the syndicate arranges for Talley's family to be taken hostage, and forces him to return to the scene and stall for time until it can mobilize its own attack against Smith's house. Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ... A syndicate is an association of people or companies. ... A shell corporation is defined in Barrons Finance & Investment Handbook as a company that is incorporated but has no significant assets or operations. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Evidence can mean: Any objectively demonstrable circumstance which tends to indicate or disprove a proposition. ...

Back at the scene, Talley learns that Mars is a serial killer, who could turn on the hostages and his own accomplices at any moment. The rest of the movie's plot turns on whether Talley can save two families while fighting two separate groups of hostage-takers at the same time. Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ...

According to the movie's official production notes, the movie's plot is roughly the same as the novel; the main difference is that a complicated subplot involving the Mafia was removed and the ages of the first group of hostage-takers was lowered slightly. In the novel, Smith's employer is Tony Benza, a crime overlord whose influence reaches throughout the entire West Coast. The Mafia, also referred to in Italian as La Cosa Nostra (variously translated as This Thing Of Ours or Our Thing), is the name for a secret criminal organisation which evolved in mid-19th century Sicily, and led to an offshoot on the East Coast of the United States, emerging... In general, the term West Coast is a nickname for the coastal states of the Western United States, comprising California, Oregon and Washington, and sometimes Alaska and Hawaii (see Pacific States). ...

Cast

• Bruce Willis – Jeff Talley
• Kevin Pollak – Mr. Smith
• Jonathan Tucker – Dennis Kelly
• Ben Foster – Mars
• Robert Knepper – Wil Bechler
• Jimmy Bennett – Tommy Smith
• Michelle Horn – Jennifer Smith
• Marshall Allman – Kevin Kelly
• Serena Scott Thomas – Jane Talley
• Rumer Willis – Amanda Talley
• Jimmy "Jax" Pinchak – Sean Mack
• Hector Luis Bustamante – Officer Ruiz

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Location details

Bristo Camino is a fictional town (though apparently intended to be a parody of Ojai or Moorpark). According to the production notes, most of the movie was actually filmed in the Malibu area (in western Los Angeles County). The exterior views of Smith's lavishly appointed house were filmed at a real house in the unincorporated Topanga Canyon area, between Malibu and Los Angeles; the interior scenes were done on soundstages in Hollywood. In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... Downtown Ojai Ojai (pronounced O-High) is a city located in Ventura County, California. ... Moorpark is a city located in Ventura County, California. ... Malibu � uma cidade situada em ocidental [ [ condado, Calif�rnia de Los Angeles ] ]. Como [ [ 2000 ] ] do census, a cidade teve uma popula��o total de 12. ... Map of California showing Los Angeles County. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...

The movie's opening scenes were filmed in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, just east of downtown. Boyle Heights is a district on the east side of Los Angeles, California, USA. Originally owned by the early L.A. Boyle-Workman family, it was subdivided in 1875 and named after Andrew Boyle. ...

See also

• 2005 in film

This is a list of film-related events in 2005. ...

External links

• Hostage at the Internet Movie Database