Mercury Rising

Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who is the…

• Director:Harold Becker
• Genre:Action / Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:107 minutes

Cast

Bruce Willis : Art Jeffries
Alec Baldwin : Nick Kudrow
Miko Hughes : Simon Lynch
Chi McBride : Tommy B. Jordan
Kim Dickens : Stacey

A cryptographic code called “Mercury” was created by the National Security Agency, so complex that its creators believe no computer on earth can decipher it. Originally created during the Reagan Administration as a test to keep the United States’ highest priority secrets under wraps, their assumption is revealed to be false when they receive a message from an autistic savant boy named Simon Lynch (Miko Hughes) who calls a telephone number written in the code which was secretly published in a puzzle magazine by two of the creators, Dean Crandell (Robert Stanton) and Leo Pedranski (Bodhi Elfman), to see if anyone could break it. Lt. Colonel Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin) sees the boy’s ability to decipher the code as a liability and seeks to silence Simon, sending a hit man to murder Simon and his family.

After killing the boy’s parents, the assassin searches the house, fails to find Simon, and leaves at the sound of approaching sirens. Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis) is an undercover FBI agent who protects Simon. He finds Simon hiding in a cache of his bedroom closet and takes the boy under his wing. Art begins to realize the difficulty of protecting, let alone questioning Simon, because of his impaired social abilities as a result of his autism. The situation is further complicated by the fact that nobody at the FBI believes Simon is in any danger, and Art is soon painted by the NSA as a kidnapper, with only his best friend and fellow agent Thomas Jordan (Chi McBride) aware that he did not commit the crime.

Meanwhile, Kudrow, upset by disagreement over how to handle the case, has Dean Crandell murdered when he starts to reveal the Mercury plans to Art. Leo Pedranski turns to Art for help; although shortly after he is murdered too, he manages to leave crucial evidence of Kudrow’s crimes, which his girlfriend, Emily Lang (Carrie Preston) takes to the F.B.I. and Jordan discreetly arranges for her to meet with Art, and she shows them the evidence. After Art introduces himself to Kudrow at his birthday party, and demands that Kudrow lay off Simon Lynch, Art arranges for Simon to go into Witness Protection. Read more

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