Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising (1998)

Timing: 1:51 (111 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1998-04-03

Country

United States

Production

Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

Genre

Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Budget

$60 000 000

Revenue

$93 100 000

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Director

Harold Becker

Actors

Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens, Robert Stanton, Bodhi Elfman, Carrie Preston, Lindsey Ginter, Peter Stormare
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Scenario

Producer

Brian Grazer, Karen Kehela Sherwood, Ric Kidney, Joseph Singer

Operator

Michael Seresin

Composer

John Barry

Artist

Lauren E. Polizzi

Audition

Nancy Klopper

Editing

Peter Honess
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• Miko Hughes spent a lot of time at a special school for autistic children while preparing for the film. He also worked with a child psychologist in Chicago to understand how a child like that should behave.
• The plot of the film bears a striking resemblance to a real story published on the DailyFinance website on December 24, 2009: "In December 1955, 'Sears, Roebuck and Co.' launched an advertisement in the newspaper listing a direct number for Santa Claus. Unfortunately, they made a mistake in one digit, and instead of 'Sears,' the secret phone number of CONAD (Continental Air Defense Command) was printed. When Colonel Harry Shoup answered the phone, he expected to hear news of a missile attack on the United States, but instead he heard the voice of a child calling Santa. And although the conversation ended with a crying child and the colonel's anger, Shoup soon corrected the situation and began telling calling children about Santa’s flights in the night sky. The following year, CONAD installed a new, unlisted phone line specifically for children’s calls. In 1958, when CONAD was transformed into NORAD, the new command continued this tradition..."
• Alec Baldwin starred in this film because he owed Universal Pictures a debt. He had once refused to act in one of the studio's films and signed an agreement stating he would appear in another film at the company's request. Otherwise, he would have faced a lawsuit.