Taken

"They took his daughter. He'll take their lives."

Jan 30 2009 PG-13 1h 30m
Action, Thriller

Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.

Official Trailer
Plot

Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.

Written by

Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen

Directed by

Pierre Morel

Cast

Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America, France, United Kingdom

Production Companies

20th Century Fox, Grive Productions, TPS Star, M6, All Pictures Media, Canal+, EuropaCorp, M6 Films, Wintergreen Productions

Languages

shqip, Français, English

Awards

2 wins & 2 nominations total

Trailers
Taken - Trailer 2 [30 January 2009] HQ
Taken (2008) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers
Taken (2008) - Official Trailer
Scores
# of Votes
651,906
Average Rating
7.7 out of 10
Metascore
51
Popularity
NA