Mercury Rising

Plot

Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.

About Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by Harold Becker, starring Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, and Miko Hughes. Willis plays Art Jeffries, an undercover FBI agent who protects a nine-year-old autistic boy, Simon Lynch (Hughes), who is targeted by government assassins after he inadvertently cracks a top secret government code. The film is based on Ryne Douglas Pearson's 1996 novel Simple Simon, which was the working title of the film. Mercury Rising was released by Universal Pictures on April 3, 1998, to mostly negative reviews from critics and grossed $93.1 million at the box office against a $60 million budget.

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