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Sean Connery,
Sean Connery,
Michelle Pfeiffer,
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Fred Schepisi,
Fred Schepisi
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: MGM
: Drama, Espionage, Cold War
: 123 min.
: English, Spanish, French
: English, Spanish, French
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"Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac McDonald) pulls him from his boozy holiday. It seems that the CIA has through a book show intermediary received a package from a Russian book editor named Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer) containing amazingly detailed notebooks written by a cynical Russian physicist named "Dante" (Klaus-Maria Brandauer). The notebooks show that Russia's nuclear threat is a joke: Russian rockets "suck instead of blow...and can't hit Nevada on a clear day," in the acerbic words of CIA Agent Russell Sheridan (Roy Scheider). But why is Dante sending the notebooks to Blair? How shall the Western world respond to what could be the end of the nuclear arms race? Blair gets drafted by a British Secret Service agent (James Fox) to go to the new Russia to meet Katya. He must see whether the new Russia is still immersed in the old Cold War and whether the notebooks are genuine or another deadly chapter in the war of the spies. ~ Nick Sambides, Jr., All Movie Guide
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| A little dated, but...
by SAmshey
October 5, 2006 - 12:49 AM PDT
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0 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer. Hard to go too far wrong. Not their best work, but not terrible either. |
| Wonderful Period Piece
by NHarlow
July 16, 2004 - 7:12 PM PDT
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| This is a very different kind of spy thriller. When I first saw it, I thought to myself that this is much more what it must be like to be involved in cold-war intrigue. I don't know that there's a lot of "suspense" per se, but it's got a fascinating plot. I loved Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer together. Connery's character really rings true as a portrait of an expat of sorts, who tries to find home in another person. The photography and the music were also quite nice. I've seen it many times and I never get tired of it! |
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