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Overview
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
David Marconi (written by)
Release Date:
20 November 1998 (USA)
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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
Plot Keywords:
NSA
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Murder
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Evidence
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Surveillance
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Washington D.C.
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Awards:
5 wins
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12 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(28 articles)
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User Comments:
Can you imagine not having any privacy at all?
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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) |
Additional Details
MPAA:
Rated R for language and violence.
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Runtime:
132 min | USA:140 min (extended version)
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R (certificate #36342) |
Iceland:14 (original rating) |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) |
Canada:14A (Ontario) (video rating) |
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
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Fun Stuff
Trivia:
The satellites repeatedly send "CQ" in Morse code every time they're seen. "CQ" is ham radio shorthand for "Anybody out there want to chat?" ("Seek you.")
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Goofs:
Factual errors: When Brill hijacks the car under the bridge, the car is an E-class Mercedes, with obvious power windows in both front and back seats. However, you can clearly see when Brill tells Dean that he is hypoglycemic, the manual device for the window. That's impossible in an E-class Mercedes.
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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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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 "The O'Reilly Factor: (2008-09-16)" (2008)
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Soundtrack:
Trigger Hippie
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Will Smith plays Robert Dean, a successful Washington, D.C. attorney who is passed a tape by an old friend (Jason Lee) on the run; it turns out that the tape secretly recorded a politically motivated murder and now the psychos who committed the crime start methodically ruining Dean's life in an effort to discredit him should he come forward with the evidence. Dean is ultimately forced to team up with Brill (Gene Hackman), a lone-wolf operative who's helped him with some of his cases in the past.
I love this movie, for one main reason: Once it gets going, it moves a mile a minute, with truly breathtaking chase scenes. It's reasonably intelligent, well-cast (and well-acted, needless to say), and the central dilemma of the film - the complete invasion of our privacy by the government jerks who are supposed to be protecting us - is too scary to ignore.
Try it and see if you like it!
It's a long movie, but it was made by skilled veterans who know how to create big-budget thrills and therefore doesn't seem as long as it is.
10/10