{"id":9676,"date":"2013-11-12T19:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/?p=9676"},"modified":"2013-11-12T19:11:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T17:11:03","slug":"the-hostages-starring-dylan-mcdermott-toni-collette-tate-donovan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/the-hostages-starring-dylan-mcdermott-toni-collette-tate-donovan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostages starring Dylan McDermott, Toni Collette & Tate Donovan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HOSTAGES<\/a><\/p>\n

The night before she\u2019s to operate on the president, surgeon Ellen Sanders (Toni Collette) is taken hostage in her house with her family by a 4-people team lead by Duncan (Dylan McDermott). The deal is simple: she kills the president during the surgery, or they will kill her husband (Tate Donovan), her teenage son and daughter (Quinn Shepard). She is warned that they have eyes and ears everywhere, and she can\u2019t seem to figure out a way out of it.<\/p>\n

And as much as they look like the perfect family, everyone but the mother seems to be hiding something from everyone: the son deals pot, the daughter might be pregnant and the husband\u2019s cheating.<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to her, Duncan is an FBI agent, and president\u2019s advisor, as well as Duncan\u2019s father-in-law are in this. We also know Duncan is a loving father and a husband, he doesn\u2019t seem to want to use more force than he has to, though he will not miss an opportunity to teach a lesson to a misbehaving hostage if he has to. We don\u2019t know why he is doing this, though we have a pretty good guess.<\/p>\n

Of course her first instinct being to save lives, Dr. Sanders will further challenge Duncan but she will not like the consequences….<\/p>\n

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The Hostages is a fun hostage-based drama\/action series with a solid cast. I\u2019ve been a Dylan McDermott fan since his The Practice days, and he has a knack for playing strong, grey and intense characters (The Practice<\/a>, The Hostages, Dark Blue).<\/p>\n

The Hostages isn\u2019t perfect. As expected, hostages do a lot of stupid things, especially the father. But then again, not having been held hostage (thank Goodness), I can\u2019t say for sure that people won\u2019t act like that. Then there are your captors, who are led by Duncan, who’s essentially a nice guy. So when a captor is unwilling to kill, he also gets to do some risky stuff. Still, it provides some decent action when hostages misbehave and the captors retaliate.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s supposed to be a mini-series, so hopefully we\u2019ll get all the episodes. Based on the Israeli television series.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Recommended Hostage-featuring Movies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inside Man starring Clive Owen, Denzel Washington & Jodie Foster<\/a><\/p>\n

The Entitled starring Kevin Zegers, Ray Liotta, Laura Vandervoort & Victor Garber<\/a><\/p>\n

Air Force One starring Harrison Ford, Glenn Close and Gary Oldman<\/a><\/p>\n

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The night before she\u2019s to operate on the president, surgeon Ellen Sanders (Toni Collette) is taken hostage in her house with her family by a 4-people team lead by Duncan (Dylan McDermott). The deal is simple: she kills the president during the surgery, or they will kill her husband (Tate Donovan), her teenage son and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[781],"tags":[3203,4489,4491,3905,4485,4493,4488,4490,4492,4494,4487,4486],"class_list":["post-9676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tv-series","tag-dylan-mcdermott","tag-dylan-mcdermott-the-hostages","tag-dylan-mcdermott-the-practice","tag-tate-donovan","tag-the-hostages","tag-the-hostages-2013-tv-series","tag-the-hostages-cast","tag-the-hostages-dylan-mcdermott","tag-the-hostages-plot","tag-the-hostages-review","tag-the-hostages-tv-series","tag-toni-collette","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t