Mercy

Arrogant millionaire lawyer Frank Kramer (John Rubinstein) thinks he has everything: money, power, success and prestige. His rude wake-up call is the kidnapping of his daughter (Rhea Silver-Smith), whose abductors seem as interested in humiliating him as getting the ransom money. Unable to admit that the situation is out of his control -- and getting more so all the time -- Kramer defies the FBI, ignores the entreaties of his ex-wife, baits the kidnappers and refuses to accept his own increasingly apparent responsibility for what has happened. This low-budget drama is shot in the gritty, artless style of New York-based crime thrillers of the '70s and aspires to be ...