Proof of Life

Proof of Life (2000) is an action drama and thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Taylor Hackford directed it, with Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe in the leads.

Terry Thorne makes his living at the edge of other people's worst days. He's a freelance hostage negotiator who buys kidnapped people back and talks captors down from impossible ransoms. This job sends him to South America, where anti-government rebels have grabbed American engineer Peter Bowman and want five million dollars. Bowman's employer is nearly bankrupt and won't pay. So his wife Alice (Meg Ryan) is left to fight for him alone, and she hires Terry. What follows is weeks of waiting, coded messages, the grim ritual of confirming a captive is still breathing, and an attraction that complicates everything between a wife and the man sworn to bring her husband home.

Shot across Ecuador, Britain, Poland and the United States, the film gets specific about the trade itself: insurance payouts, the math of a ransom, the patience it takes to barter for a life. Crowe came to the role straight off Gladiator, and the spark between him and Ryan spilled past the screen into headlines. Stream Proof of Life (2000) online on iFILM.