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Dominican Rep. The Falcon and the Snowman
- Original title
- The Falcon and the Snowman
- Year
- 1985
- Running time
- 131 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Steven Zaillian. Book: Robert Lindsey
- Cast
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Timothy Hutton
Sean Penn
Pat Hingle
Joyce Van Patten
David Suchet
Lori Singer
Richard Dysart- Art Camacho
Priscilla Pointer
Chris Makepeace
Dorian Harewood- Mady Kaplan
- Macon McCalman
Jerry Hardin- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Action. Thriller | Spy Film. Cold War. Based on a true story. 1970s
- Synopsis
- John Schlesinger directed this fact-based drama - adapted from Robert Lindsay's bestseller of the same title -- about two Californians, friends since boyhood, who are caught selling government secrets to the Soviet Union. Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) is an all-American boy, studying for the priesthood in a seminary. But Boyce decides to drop out of school, and with the help of his father (Pat Hingle), a FBI agent, he gets a job working for the CIA in a message-routing center. While reading the messages, Boyce is shocked to learn that the CIA is involved in fixing Australian elections. Watching the Watergate hearings on television, he feels an ever-mounting sense of outrage at the arrogance of the U.S. government and decides to do something about it. Deciding to supply the CIA messages to the Russians, he enlists his childhood friend Daulton Lee (Sean Penn) to help him. Lee is to deliver the CIA secrets to a Russian operative (David Suchet) at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. But Lee is an unreliable drug dealer, and his sloppy spy trail leads the two old friends into more trouble than they bargained for. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Awards
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1985: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Actor.
- Critics' reviews
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"A very curious though effective entertainment, a scathing social satire in the form of an outrageously clumsy spy story told with a completely straight face"
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"The sumptuousness of Schlesinger's style is impressive. There's something lordly (and a little bored) in this director's command of the medium"
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"Despite Hutton and Schlesinger, 'The Falcon and the Snowman' does tell a terrific story"
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