Name: Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story
Genre: Drama
Released: 1991-01-13
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Gila Almagor, Na'ama Amrani, G.W. Bailey

This was a based on true story movie - and my husband and I enjoyed it - another find in the $1 bin at Wal-mart. As it says on the box it covers the kidnapping of Mr. Levin in the Middle East and his wife's attempts to free him.

This movie took many interesting twists and turns. It showed that even then we did not know how to deal with the threat of American's being kidnapped and how much danger we put reporters in to get close to the story. The only thing I was disappointed in was I would have liked a little more back history, on Sis's family (since she and her brother call each other Sis and Brother) and on how Sis and Jerry met. You see her deep love for her husband yet they both seem so different from one another.

On a side note it was interesting to see Marlo Thomas as a blonde.

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Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story

Based on the real-life experiences of Sis Levin, the wife of CNN Reporter Jerry Levin, who was taken hostage in Lebanon by Shiite Fundamentalists in 1984, and her struggle to free him.

Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story (1991)

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