Taken

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Bryan, a former secret agent living in the US, is divorced; he is fond of his 17-year-old daughter Kim who lives with his ex-wife and her new husband. Kim wants to take a vacation in Europe with her friend Amanda, and together follow U2's European tour. Kim's mother allows this, but Kim also needs permission from her father. Since Kim fears that Bryan will not consent because of cautiousness, she pretends that they will only stay in Paris. Reluctantly Bryan agrees.

In Paris a seemingly friendly young man named Peter proposes to share a taxi with them to the house where Kim and her friend are staying, and so they do. However, the man works for a criminal organization of Albanians to which he reports the address.

In the house, after a few minutes Kim recieves a phone call from her father,where she then goes to the bathroom. She then sees from the bathroom window, men entering the room and abducting Amanda. Bryan tells Kim to go to the nearest bedroom and hide under the bed. Once there he tells her "Now this next part is very important. They're going to take you." The mysterious men are then seen grabbing Kim's legs from under the bed. Bryan talks on the phone and tells the men he will find them, and a man says "good luck". He then calls his friend Sam to identify the man whose name is to be discovered as 'Marco'.

Bryan travels to Paris, and then finds Peter. He gives chase but Peter accidently dies by being hit by a truck. He then gets the aid of a former friend who is now an deputy director of Internal Security ,going along the name Jean-Claude.

Cast
Liam Neeson
Famke Janssen
Maggie Grace
Xander Berkeley
Holly Valance
Katie Cassidy

Movie Info
Directed by Pierre Morel
Produced by Luc Besson
Music by Nathaniel Mechaly
Cinematography Michel Abramowicz
Editing by Frédéric Thoraval
Distributed by

• 20th Century Fox
• Europa Corp.

Release date(s)

• France: February 27, 2008
• US : Jan 2009

Running time 93 min.
Country France
Language English
Budget $45,000,000