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The Good Shepherd (2006)
6.8
Ratings: 6.8/10 from 60,717 users
Metascore:
61/100
Reviews: 465 user | 190 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life. Director:Robert De NiroWriter:Eric Roth |
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| Matt Damon | ... | ||
| Angelina Jolie | ... | ||
| Alec Baldwin | ... | ||
| Tammy Blanchard | ... | ||
| Billy Crudup | ... | ||
| Robert De Niro | ... | ||
| Keir Dullea | ... | ||
| Michael Gambon | ... | ||
| Martina Gedeck | ... | ||
| William Hurt | ... | ||
| Timothy Hutton | ... | ||
| Mark Ivanir | ... | ||
| Gabriel Macht | ... | ||
| Lee Pace | ... | ||
| Joe Pesci | ... | ||
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Storyline
Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recruitment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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The untold story of the most powerful covert agency in the world. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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Budget:
$90,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$14,142,760 (USA) (24 December 2006)Gross:
$59,901,040 (USA) (4 March 2007)Company Credits
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Written by Arvo Pärt
Performed by The Hilliard Ensemble, Tallinna Kammerorkester (as The Tallinn Chamber Orchestra) and the Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor (as Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir),
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor
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William Hurt's character, Phillip Allen, is partly based on Allen Dulles, OSS operative and later CIA director during the Bay of Pigs invasion. President John F. Kennedy was very disapproving of the CIA secret tactics, as well using their own army in foreign seditious actions & involvements. Ironically, Allen Dulles was appointed to the Earl Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President Kennedy, who had fired Allan Dulles as head of the CIA. See more »Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): As a Russian, Mironov should have had his wedding band on his right hand. See more »Soundtracks
"Litany"Written by Arvo Pärt
Performed by The Hilliard Ensemble, Tallinna Kammerorkester (as The Tallinn Chamber Orchestra) and the Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor (as Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir),
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor
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