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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Tony Scott
Writer (WGA):
David Marconi (written by)
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Release Date:
20 November 1998 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
It's not paranoia if they're really after you. more
Plot:
A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
5 wins & 12 nominations more
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(28 articles)
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User Comments:
I like this one, also beeing somewhat realistic (not in every detail of course). more (379 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Will Smith ... Robert Clayton Dean

Gene Hackman ... Edward Lyle, 'Brill'

Jon Voight ... Reynolds

Lisa Bonet ... Rachel Banks

Regina King ... Carla Dean

Stuart Wilson ... Congressman Albert

Laura Cayouette ... Christa Hawkins
Loren Dean ... Hicks

Barry Pepper ... Pratt
Ian Hart ... Bingham

Jake Busey ... Krug

Scott Caan ... Jones

Jason Lee ... Zavitz

Gabriel Byrne ... NSA agent, 'Brill'

James LeGros ... Jerry Miller (as James Le Gros)
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language and violence.
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View content advisory for parents
Runtime:
132 min | USA:140 min (extended version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Colour:
Colour (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Certification:
USA:R (certificate #36342) | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (Ontario) (video rating) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) | South Korea:15 | Canada:AA (Ontario) (original rating) | Argentina:13 | Netherlands:12 (re-rating) | Netherlands:16 (video rating) | Philippines:PG-13 | New Zealand:M | Brazil:14 | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Hong Kong:IIB | Italy:T | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15
Filming Locations:
Baltimore, Maryland, USA more
Company:
Touchstone Pictures more

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Trivia:
Seth Green is uncredited. more
Goofs:
Continuity: At the beginning when the Congressman is killed, the character with the syringe walks past the dog. As he kills the Congressman, the dog starts barking, yet in the footage when the bird watcher is watching, the dog starts barking as the killer walks toward the Congressman. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Congressman Phillip Hammersley: Come on. Come on, mutt. Now, look at that ball. All right. Come on, get that ball. Ah!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in 'Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty' - Making of the Hollywood Game (2002) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Good King Wenceslas more

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User Comments

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43 out of 55 people found the following comment useful.
I like this one, also beeing somewhat realistic (not in every detail of course)., 24 August 2002
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Author: (rolfhub@web.de) from Hüttenberg, Germany

Well, I like this one. I like the cast, the visuals are well done, but what is more important is the plot that I like really much. It's not the most sophisticated plot of all times, but I think it's quite good, and to some degree, realistic. Of course it's not possible to move sattelites that quickly, or zoom in on a videotape that much and still have crystal-clear visual, but quite some technology seen is realistic today, or in the near future. This is an hollywood flick, all right, so they have quite much action and everything looks very easy, steering a sattelite seems to be no harder than playing a video game, what makes it all seem a bit unrealistic/sci-fi-like, but today's technical posibilities are quite large, and continue to grow, so informing oneself about the issue (I mean the real world issue) is not a bad idea.

To give you some points to think:

- It's routine for the credid card companies to document every transaction made with the cards, go figure who gets the docs if police is investigating.

- Every call / fax done is documented for billing, go figure, who...

- At least for your ISP it's possible to read every unencrypted email you send or receive, go figure ...

- Today there are MANY cameras in public areas in Great Britain, with numbers still growing.

- Face recognition software is already being used in combination with some surveillance cameras.

- Dictation software that can interpret your spoken word and convert it into written text is being sold to you today, maybe some organisations have much better versions at their hands ...

The list could go on, but what I want to say is that one should think about the posibilities and listen to what the politicians say, and what they want to allow the federal organisations.

You want to be able to still _enjoy_ the movie in some years time, not thinking of it as being somewhat normal just as everyday life, all right?

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