Production
Josh McKenny, based his screen play on the short story written by Don Stanford in 1996 titled “The Hostage” as indicated in the movie's closing credits. The story and the movie have many similarities; however the new title and some of the adapted screenplay draw clear reference to a similar events that actually took place in affluent Westchester County in the early 1980s when a group of twenty-somethings home from various Ivy League schools over several summers ran a lucrative gambling and money laundering enterprise that grew to become the largest in the Eastern United States. The group with ties to affluent Scarsdale, Bedford, Rye, Bronxville, and Fairfield referred to themselves in documents, evidence and later by both the local and national press as vita privare regisio, Latin for "Suicide Kings". The movie makes strong reference to individuals associated with that group and similar events that actually took place including the kidnapping of a high-ranking member of organized crime.
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