![]() Relenting mildly and feigning admiration for his heir and his destiny, Getty sicced one of his security advisors, former CIA operative Fletcher Chase (Mark Wahlberg, greatly suppressing his Boston action hero tendencies), to lead the negotiation and retrieval efforts. Walking among his antiquities and ticker tape machines, Getty may have had the ambivalence to play hardball, but the boy’s agonized mother Gail Harris (Michelle Williams, thrust into another emotional wringer role) did not. ![]() Convinced showing weakness with a quick check and extorted loss of millions will only put a target on the back on his fourteen other grandchildren, Getty coldly refuses the ransom. Played by Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer, this billionaire oil tycoon was notorious for his cutthroat shrewdness in matters of money. That was a high sum for an expat rich kid by any standards, but this teenager was the grandson of the richest private individual on the planet, John Paul Getty. Chief among his captors was the low-level mouthpiece Cinquanta (talented French actor Romain Duris of The New Girlfriend making his American debut) who chained him up in a mountainside farmhouse in Calabria and sets the ransom at $17 million. ![]() The 18-year-old was shoved into a van on July 10th perusing the Piazza Farnese and its prostitutes in Rome at three in the morning. Playing with dramatic license, All the Money in the World, written by David Scarpa ( The Last Castle), draws its inspiration from the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III.
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