Mercury Rising Actors List (Cast)
Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by Harold Becker and written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal. It is based on the 1996 novel Simple Simon by Ryne Douglas Pearson. The film stars Bruce Willis as Art Jeffries, an FBI agent who protects Simon Lynch (Miko Hughes), a nine-year-old autistic boy targeted by government assassins after he deciphers a classified National Security Agency code. Alec Baldwin, Chi McBride, and Kim Dickens appear in supporting roles.
The film was released in the United States on April 3, 1998, by Universal Pictures. It received mostly negative reviews from critics, who criticized its formulaic plot and tonal inconsistencies, though several reviewers praised its emotional sincerity and the sensitive portrayal of autism. The film grossed approximately $93 million worldwide against a production budget estimated between $50–60 million.
At the 19th Golden Raspberry Awards, Willis received the award for Worst Actor. Moreover, Hughes won Best Leading Young Actor in a Feature Film at the 20th Youth in Film Awards.
Read more...- Director:
- Harold Becker
- Release Date:
- Germany
- Running Time:
Mercury Rising Actors List
Voting Rules
- You can vote up or down. Please always consider the context when voting, e.g. a song should be voted up or down with respect to the other songs contained on the album, an actor's performance in comparison with other actors in the same movie, a book with respect to other books by the same author or within the same genre.
- A vote can be cancelled by simply clicking the opposite vote within 24 hours. You can then vote again on the same item.
- Each user has one vote per item within a specific list every 24 hours. After 24 hours you can vote again on the same item within the same list.
- You can vote on as many items as you like within a list or on the same item if it's part of another list. For example, you can vote David Bowie up or down on the list of pop music artists as well as on the list of indie rock artists and on the list of rock music artists. etc.
- Happy Voting!
Analytics & Infographics
Infographic: Nationalities of Actors