Sentences with phrase «job as a hostage»
Synopsis: Devastated by an unspeakable tragedy while on the job as a hostage negotiator for the LAPD, Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) resigns and accepts a low - profile job as chief of police in the sleepy town of Bristo Camino in Ventura County.
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Ed Balls was right to commit to a # 10bn capital spending programme particularly directed at social housing construction, which would be good for job creation as well as meeting a large and growing social need, but he queered his pitch by saying he would accept the spending cuts Osborne is going to spell out on 26 June (why give a hostage to fortune when he doesn't even know what those cuts will be?)
It's probably not really the emotionally charged crowd - pleaser it tries to be, but as a sports docudrama, it does a respectable job in creating a good sense of the atmosphere of the times, and the importance of the game to a country that suffered through Watergate, Vietnam, the Iranian hostage crisis, unbelievable inflation, gas shortages, and the Cold War.
Picking up the action one year after its brutal opening sequence, Hostage finds Talley ensconced in a new job as police chief in a sleepy Ventura County hamlet, the sort of place where the peace does a reliably good job of keeping itself.
He took the job as police chief there to get away from the pressures of LA hostage negotiations - and to escape his guilt.
Affleck stars as Doug MacRay, the ruthless leader of a gang of bank robbers who falls for Claire Keesey (played by Rebecca Hall)- a bank manager that he and his cronies took hostage on their last job.
The Hollywood Reporter, John De Fore (April 19, 2018) As the hostage who will come to most closely identify with the outlaws, Rapace has the film's biggest job.
While all of the essential elements are there, such as a loved one held hostage to force the main character's hand, a high - ranking government official with a lot to lose, plus a tribe of varied bad guys, it would be easy to think you've read this story somewhere before, except for the fact that the author does a great job of drawing the reader in through a very readable voice.