Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHarold Becker
Screenplay by
Based onSimple Simon
by Ryne Douglas Pearson
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMichael Seresin
Edited byPeter Honess
Music byJohn Barry
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • April 3, 1998 (1998-04-03)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$60 million[1]
Box office$93.1 million[2]

Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller crime film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Harold Becker, the film is based on Ryne Douglas Pearson's 1996 novel originally published as Simple Simon, which was the working title of the film. Willis plays Art Jeffries, an undercover FBI agent who protects a nine-year-old autistic boy, Simon Lynch (played by Miko Hughes), who is targeted by government assassins after he cracks a top secret government code.

The film was released on April 3, 1998. It received mostly negative reviews and grossed $93 million at the box office.

  1. ^ "Mercury Rising (movie details)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Archived from the original on May 23, 2023. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  2. ^ "Mercury Rising". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on August 5, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2016.