Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by Harold Becker and written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal. It is based on the 1996 novel Simple Simon by Ryne Douglas Pearson. The film stars Bruce Willis as Art Jeffries, an FBI agent who protects Simon Lynch, a nine-year-old autistic boy targeted by government assassins after he deciphers a classified National Security Agency code. Alec Baldwin, Chi McBride, and Kim Dickens appear in supporting roles.