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A CIA agent sets a trap for a talk-show host's shady friends. Director Sam Peckinpah's final film.
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Sam Peckinpah's final film has a lot to recommend it, including a complicated story derived from a Robert Ludlum novel but laced with Peckinpah's hard questions about loyalty and the balance between civilization and basic instincts. Rutger Hauer stars as John Tanner, a television host with strong criticisms of America's cold-war conduct. Looking forward to a weekend of socializing with old friends (played by Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, and Chris Sarandon), Tanner is approached by a CIA agent (John Hurt) who tells him his friends may be Soviet agents. Tanner agrees to let the spy agency set up surveillance in his house; it turns out there is more to the agent's claims than meets the eye and Tanner's weekend eventually erupts into violence. Osterman is not Peckinpah at his best (though, typically, the director was under siege from production politics), but the maestro of montage certainly worked in some extraordinary action sequences. --Tom Keogh
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 6.4 ounces
- Director : Sam Peckinpah
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Widescreen, Dolby
- Run time : 1 hour and 43 minutes
- Release date : March 23, 2004
- Actors : Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper, Chris Sarandon
- Dubbed: : French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Producers : Don Guest, E.C. Monell, Guy Collins, Larry Jones
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS ES 6.1)
- Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
- Writers : Alan Sharp, Ian Masters, Robert Ludlum
- Number of discs : 2
