The Negotiator
He frees hostages for a living. Now he's taking hostages to survive.
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy.Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.
- Director
- F. Gary Gray
- Worldwide
- $45M
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Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
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The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.
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Box Office & Release
The Negotiator returned 0.9× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $50M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $45M
- Release date
- Jul 29, 1998
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, United States of America
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