| Release Date | 01 April 1998 |
| Budget | $60,000,000 |
| US Box Office | $33,000,000 |
| Tagline | Someone knows too much. |
| Genre | Action, Drama, Thriller |
| Country | USA |
| Filming Locations | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Language | English |
| Sound Mix | DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS-Stereo |
| Color | Color |
| Film Type | Feature |
| Film Class | Action Thriller, Chase Movie |
| Mood | Nail-biters |
| Themes | Flight of the Innocent, Protecting the Innocent, Political Corruption |
| Tones | Paranoid, Claustrophobic, Forceful, Gritty, Tense |
| Tags | Autistic, Code [encryption], FBI (Federal Bureau Of Investigation), Government, Hitman, Orphan, Protection, Savant |
Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Harold Becker, the movie is based on Ryne Douglas Pearson's 1996 novel originally published as Simple Simon. Willis plays Art Jeffries, an undercover FBI agent who protects a nine year old boy with autism who is targeted by government assassins after cracking a top secret government code.