Hostage
1987-10-01 | Drama / Action
1,780 AI "Keytalks" from People:
Click "Keytalk" you liked to discover Movies of you taste
The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to trade for his release. They select a plane carrying a religious leader to use as their main hostage. They soon learn that they have an added bonus of the daughter and grandson of Colonel Shaw, a bigwig in the country. The grandson all the while has to cope with the dual problems of being hijacked and held hostage while needing a kidney transplant. The hijackers have everything in their favor, except that the colonel's daughter is the sweetheart of Major Sam Striker. Striker puts together a band of mercenaries and sets about freeing the hostages.
Streaming Services
Ratings
4.8
-
-
People's review rating
48%
52%
1,780 Movie prompts Related to Hostage
Maimovie AI learns movie taste from social media, search keywords, and other diverse crowd data. As a result, our AI has characterized this movie with the following movie tastes:
Awards from the Crowd
1,780 prompts ranked by the crowd 
Ranked #2006
for
Ranked #2047
for
Ranked #4029
for
Ranked #2006
for
Ranked #2047
for
Ranked #4029
for
Cast
Acting & Cast
Character
View Live Cast Profile
Featured Crew
105 Tastes Related to the Featured Crew
Based on the crowd’s live-updated social data, the following movie tastes represent the featured crew of the movie, Hostage:
View Live Featured Crew Profile
Visual & Sound Taste from Video
What people actually say about
Visual
&
Sound
“Key Talks” from People
Ranked #19,354 / 121,027 Movies
Ranked #31,279 / 40,248 Movies
Ranked #31,638 / 37,398 Movies
Search Keywords
Touch to Google the following Keywords:
Top 20 Movies Similar to Hostage
Movies Similar to Hostage
“ Irredeemable ”
as in
General Taste
“ Least Interesting ”
as in
Emotional Response
“ Completely Bonkers ”
as in
Character
“ Off-Key Acting ”
as in
Acting & Cast
Hostage FAQ
The release date of Hostage is October 01, 1987.
The genre of Hostage is Drama,Action.
On October 04, 2024, the IMDB rating of Hostage is 4.8/10, Rotten Tomato rating is 0/100, Metacritic rating is 0/100, TMDB rating is 0.0/10.
The casts of Hostage are Wings Hauser starring as Maj. Sam Striker, Karen Black starring as Laura Lawrence, Kevin McCarthy starring as Col. Tim Shaw, Nancy Locke starring as Nicole Newman, Robert Whitehead starring as Harry Stone, Billy Second starring as Rona.
The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to trade for his release. They select a plane carrying a religious leader to use as their main hostage. They soon learn that they have an added bonus of the daughter and grandson of Colonel Shaw, a bigwig in the country. The grandson all the while has to cope with the dual problems of being hijacked and held hostage while needing a kidney transplant. The hijackers have everything in their favor, except that the colonel's daughter is the sweetheart of Major Sam Striker. Striker puts together a band of mercenaries and sets about freeing the hostages..
On October 04, 2024, there were 1780 public reaction to Hostage including irredeemable, least interesting, completely bonkers, off-key acting, wacky.
The runtime of Hostage is 95 minutes.
The director of Hostage is Hanro Mohr.