Ransom

Ransom (1996) is Ron Howard's crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Airline tycoon Tom Mullen has his young son snatched from a New York park, and the kidnappers want two million dollars. He's ready to pay. At first.

Mullen plays it straight and lets the FBI run the case from his apartment. But the handoff falls apart, the kidnapper keeps toying with him, and his wife Kate is coming undone. So Tom does the unthinkable: he goes on live television and turns the ransom into a bounty on the kidnapper's head. Mel Gibson plays a father out of patience, squared off against Gary Sinise as the cold, calculating cop pulling the strings. Rene Russo, Delroy Lindo and Lily Taylor fill out the cast.

Loosely built from a 1950s anthology episode, the film reworks it into a tense urban manhunt with a sharp twist at the end. Howard shoots the city close and jittery and never lets up. Stream Ransom (1996) online on iFILM.