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#145
My Rating:
7
Seen It:
Yes
#145
My Rating:
7
Seen It:
Yes
USA / English
| Robert Redford | Martin Bishop |
| Sidney Poitier | Donald Crease |
| Dan Aykroyd | Mother |
| Ben Kingsley | |
| River Phoenix | Carl Arbegast |
| James Earl Jones | |
| Mary McDonnell | |
| David Strathairn | Erwin 'Whistler' Emory |
| Jo Marr | College-Aged Cosmo (as Jojo Marr) |
| Garrison Hershberger | College-Aged Bishop (as Gary Hershberger) |
| Bodhi Elfman | Centurion S&L Night Guard |
| Denise Dowse | Bank Teller |
| Hanyee | Bank Secretary |
| Jojo Marr | College-Aged Cosmo |
| Gary Hershberger | College-Aged Bishop |
| Director | Phil Alden Robinson; Phil Aden Robinson |
| Producer | Lawrence Lasker; Walter F. Parkes; William M. Elvin |
| Writer | Phil Alden Robinson; Lawrence Lasker; Walter F. Parkes |
| Cinematography | John Lindley |
| Musician | James Horner |
This enjoyable thriller, written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson (the screenwriter of Field of Dreams), follows a raggedy group of corporate security experts who get in over their heads when they accept an assignment poaching some hot hardware for the National Security Agency. Robert Redford plays the group's guru, an aging techno-anarchist who has been hiding from the feds since the early 1970s; his companionable gang of freaks includes Dan Aykroyd, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, the late River Phoenix, and Sidney Poitier, as a veteran CIA operative turned "sneaker." The technological black box that everybody is after, an array of computer chips that can decode any encrypted message, isn't a very plausible invention, but it's a serviceable McGuffin, and the megalomania of the master plotter played by Ben Kingsley has more resonance than most. Modest inferences can be drawn about the very latest high-tech threats to civil liberties. --David Chute
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