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Genres:
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Drama /
Thriller
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Director:
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John Schlesinger
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Actors:
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Priscilla Pointer,
Macon McCalman,
Chris Makepeace,
Rob Reed,
Rob Newell,
Karen West,
Annie Kozuch,
Mady Kaplan,
Timothy Hutton,
Sean Penn,
Pat Hingle,
Joyce Van Patten,
Art Camacho,
Richard Dysart,
Dorian Harewood
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Duration:
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126 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)106
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Plot Summary:
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The firm story of Christopher Boyce (Hutton), a young All-American man whose job as a guard for reactive documents shatters his fealty in his mountains and leads him to a then mirthful, every once in a while chilling sideline as a observe for the Soviets, aided by his scruffy buddy, Daulton (Penn); it can't matrix, though, and the consequences are tremendous for Boyce and his family.
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Tags:
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Falcon and the Snowman, The
An overlooked entry in the CVs of all involved, John Schlesinger's sophisticated spy drama The Falcon And The Snowman is loosely based on fact. Focussing on the personalities rather than the process of espionage, it's a careful attempt to examine some of the tensions thrown up by the Cold War. Christopher Boyce (Hutton) is a seminary school drop-out who takes a menial job at the CIA's communications HQ, in the aftermath of Watergate. There he discovers that the US government was involved in fixing elections in Australia. With honourable intentions - sort of - he hooks up with coke-addled school friend Daulton Lee (Penn) and the pair attempt to pass the information on to a Russian spy (Suchet) in Mexico. Were it not for the fact that all thi...
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