Sentences with phrase «play hostage»

That'd be great, but from a business perspective, they can simply make more by charging everyone $ 60, and holding online play hostage.

And who would play the hostage negotiator and sole man on the police force on John's side than Robert Duvall, another actor we have high opinions of?

Wilder played a hostage of Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty's felonious duo.

The six characters that play the hostages in the movie feel extremely one dimensional and are not given any room to develop.

Not exact matches

The chaplain and prisoners (all male of course) hold him hostage to show him their play re-creating the events of 1912, when Vallier (whose father the count abandoned his slightly insane mother and he and returned to France) and Simon (a farm lad) fall in love and learn to express their love using the words and acting of «The Life of St. Sebastian».

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

He has been involved in fostering better relationships between rival Muslim factions in Iraq, negotiating in many hostage situations, and has played a key role in religious peace agreements both in Israel and Iraq.

For more than 10 minutes, the Ugly Eagles, as they are affectionately known, were held hostage as technical problems prevented their entrance song from playing over the public address system.

I want Moses Brown to play at Maryland, but Maryland can't be held hostage to his potential.

The Agriculture Department has a role to play in making sure that poultry farmers and produce growers aren't held hostage to the whims of giant firms.

'' A lot of factors come into play when a nation has to decide whether or not to engage in prisoner / hostage swap.

Shootings broke out at a restaurant and a popular concert hall where a rock band was playing, and the France 24 website said dozens of hostages had been taken.

Estrogen dominance held her weight hostage and further played into her stress levels.

Synopsis: Based on real events the dramatic thriller Argo chronicles the life - or - death covert operation to rescue six Americans which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis focusing on the little - known role that the CIA and Hollywood played - information that was not declassified until many years after the event.

Böse, desperate not to have his agenda undermined by the lingering scent of Nazism, shares Peres» concern over the optics of how this might all play out; everyone is a hostage to something, and one plumber is worth 10 revolutionaries.

While Glover plays with the house's bells and whistles inside and Jasmine texts away in her bedroom, Shaun is confronted outside by an intruder (Mark Furze), but when she fends him off, she runs to the backyard door of the house to discover her children are being held hostage by three more burglars, Eddie (Billy Burke), Sam (Levi Meaden) and Duncan (Richard Cabral), who came to crack open a safe that holds $ 4 million.

In essence, this is the story of two bank robbers and their hostage, who make the mistake of driving onto the desert property of psychopathic marksman Wyatt Moss (played by Pat Healy)-- who then hunts them for sport.

After a hostage negotiation goes terribly wrong in the opening moments of the first episode (one of the few scenes where violence comes into play), Ford, a green agent obsessed with the connection between psychology and the increasing occurrences of violence in the country, pushes the FBI toward softening its typical understanding of serial killers.

Underneath the camera jank, though, Portable Ops introduced a template that nearly all future games in the franchise would adopt: The idea of base - building by rescuing hostages in bite - sized play spaces carried through all the way to the series» terminus, Metal Gear Solid 5.

Also, they put the actors playing the escaped hostages in a house for five days to live together, so we all got to know each other really well.

Playing a corporate wife attracted to the hostage negotiator (Mr. Crowe) who is bargaining for her husband's life after he is kidnapped and held for ransom, Ms. Ryan expresses no inner conflict, nor much of anything else beyond a mounting tension.

Mark Strong plays the police hostage negotiator, trying to buy time — lying on the government's behalf — coaxing, cajoling, hand - delivering food and always pushing back the «We start killing them!»

Then they decide arm themselves with squirt guns and take the station hostage for not playing their demo.

WITH HER CHILDREN BEING HELD HOSTAGE by four burglars; would Shaun Russell's, played by Gabrielle Union (Deliver Us from Eva, Think Like a Man franchise) primal instinct to protect her children be more than a match for these criminals?

Forest Whitaker plays an FBI agent who is in charge of moving their high - value target; Genesis Rodriguez is another FBI agent who is taken hostage by the cartel members.

Joey King, who plays John's daughter Emily, does a fine job, but the attempts to make her anything more than a glorified hostage fall a bit flat (except for a hilariously on - the - nose bit where Emily saves the White House by performing her flag routine with the White House's flag on the lawn to wave off an airstrike; it's so dumb and goofy that it just lands on charming).

According to Deadline, who reported Campbell's casting, the film sees Johnson play a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and war veteran who now assesses security for skyscrapers.

Failed negotiations between SWAT team captain Philippe Legorjus (played by Kassovitz) with the Kanak rebels over hostages lead to a bloody stand - off with French troops.

Emmerich already has Channing Tatum on board to play the Secret Service agent who must save the president when a paramilitary group attacks and holds everyone hostage inside the White House and recently recruited Maggie Gyllenhaal to play the female lead, a Secret Service agent on the president's detail.

In «A Pistol for Ringo,» the eponymous hero, played by Giuliano Gemma, infiltrates a ranch of Mexican bandits to save a beautiful hostage (Nieves Navarro).

You play as a type of robotic cop (hmmm...) who is tasked with ensuring society's safety and used to assassinate violent targets and defuse hostage situations.

An overblown remake of William Wyler's 1955 film The Desperate Hours — itself based on the novel and stage play by Joseph Hayes — Cimino's Desperate Hours cast Rourke in the Humphrey Bogart role of a criminal on the lam who holds a suburban family hostage in their own home while he waits for his girlfriend to show up.

When they get to the bank, an amusing hostage situation breaks out between the highly - strung bank owner, Jason Sudeikis, and a customer, who is unwilling to go down without a fight, played by Naomi Watts.

Their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage by a wicked drugs baroness Poppy, brilliantly played by Julianne Moore.

The man (played by Josh Brolin) reveals himself to be an escaped convict, who takes the family hostage during Labor Day weekend.

Play recreated and enriched levels based on the original Rainbow Six game like the Embassy Hostage Crisis, an oil platform assault or the infiltration of a rebel camp in Africa.

Before he went a bit silly, John Milius did direct a couple of fine films - the taut crime drama Dillinger, and then the sweeping historical adventure The Wind and the Lion, which tells the story of President Roosevelt (the first) sending in troops to rescue an American family taken hostage by a Moroccan chieftain played by Sean Connery.

But if Hostage seems another of those good - cop - atoning - for - past - sins morality plays that Hollywood never tires of making, it's also leaner, meaner and dirtier than most, making it possible to forget you've seen it all before.

They're held hostage, helped by a friend of the deceased played by Imogen Poots, until it becomes clear that the supremacist's only option — lead by Patrick Stewart — is to leave no witnesses and frame the band for everything.

The source postures itself as a reaction to the violent paternalism of the traditional church, and yet its main female character, Sophie (Audrey Tautou — and of course her character's name is «Sophie» and of course she's played by Audrey Tautou), a noted cryptographer, is completely helpless throughout to solve any puzzles and made not once, but twice, the squealing prize at the end of a hostage - takers knife / gun.

Brie Larson plays the mother, while Sean Bridgers plays the creep who's held her hostage for years.

We're guessing that Perrineau, who plays a travelling salesman called John, will be the hostage who reveals hidden depths — especially when you consider that the other two cast members announced thus far are Michael Madsen and Danny Trejo, both of whom specialise in sleazy nutjobs.

Tilda Swinton — who plays a shrill functionary taken hostage by the rebels — adored The Host and sought the director out at Cannes.

When a pet chameleon (Johnny Depp) accidentally freed from his aquarium winds up in a rough, parched Mojave Desert town and decides to recreate himself as a gun - slinging hero named Rango, there are no surprises in store: Everyone around him is exactly what they appear to be, from the scheming mayor with Ned Beatty's gravelly voice to the tough - but - sensitive rancher's daughter (Isla Fisher) with no purpose except to play love interest and hostage.

Line after line of dialogue rolls by and almost nothing strikes the funny bone, and in between the attempts at wit come some very tired gags, like Steven's girlfriend, played by Callista Flockhart («Ally McBeal»), taking a Pomeranian hostage for barking too much.

Summary Capsule: A trio of no - name rockers take a radio station hostage to get their demo tape played on the air.

Especially when he's playing a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team Leader protecting a giant futuristic building under siege by terrorists.

When «Argo» turns serious, it starts to drag, in large part because the subjects of the operation (fully aware of the 52 other Americans that didn't escape the embassy and remained in a perilous hostage situation) lack the depth of the cunning Mendez, the focus of our sympathies when he encounters hesitations from the Americans to play along.

Some of the best punchlines come courtesy of Elton John — playing himself in an extended cameo as Poppy's catty hostage.

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