When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.
- Director
- Writers
- Tom Clancy(based on the novel by)
- W. Peter Iliff(screenplay by)
- Donald E. Stewart(screenplay by)
- Stars
- Director
- Writers
- Tom Clancy(based on the novel by)
- W. Peter Iliff(screenplay by)
- Donald E. Stewart(screenplay by)
- Stars
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
- Director
- Writers
- Tom Clancy(based on the novel by)
- W. Peter Iliff(screenplay by)
- Donald E. Stewart(screenplay by)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
The Life and Times of Harrison Ford
The Life and Times of Harrison Ford
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- TriviaThe attack on members of the Royal Family at the beginning of the film was inspired by a similar true-life attempt to kidnap Princess Anne on March 20, 1974. She was in her car when a man shot her guard and driver. She was subsequently helped by a passerby who attacked the criminal and saved her.
- GoofsWhile it is true that the average British police officer does not carry a firearm, there is no way that a convicted high-profile IRA terrorist would be escorted without an armed guard.
- Quotes
Jack Ryan: I want to know where Sean Miller and Kevin O'Donnell are.
Paddy O'Neil: [scoffs] Let me try and understand this. You want me to sell out my fellow lrishmen to you? I don't think you understand me at all.
Jack Ryan: Oh, l think l do.
Paddy O'Neil: Listen! l don't give a damn what they've done. But the day l sell out my own people is the day l'll put a bullet through my head.
Jack Ryan: So, that's it then?
Paddy O'Neil: That's it. You know on second thought maybe I won't have a drink with you
Jack Ryan: Fine. I'll go home.
Paddy O'Neil: Have a nice trip.
Jack Ryan: I'll go home and call all the news stations! Invite them into my daughter's hospital ward. Give them what they want!
Jack Ryan: [Gets in O'Neil's face] I don't give a shit whether you did it or not. But if you don't help me, I will put such a stranglehold on your gun money that your boys will be out in the streets throwing rocks! I will *fucking* destroy you! I will make it my mission in life!
- Alternate versionsThe German TV-version has got a few cuts.
- ConnectionsEdited into Commercial Entertainment Product (1992)
- SoundtracksTheme from Harry's Game
Performed by Clannad
I have read a lot of criticisms of Patriot Games (and even more of the sequel, Clear and Present Danger), and while I agree with mostly all of it, I still think Patriot Games is a good couple hours of good clean cinematic fun. But maybe that's just because I love Harrison Ford.
Ebert makes the obvious complaint that Jack Ryan, when he finds himself in danger, sends his family to a remote cabin rather than a secure bunker at CIA headquarters, and it's true that this detracts from the movie, but you have to have a movie somehow, and that's a situation where making the smart, real life decision would cancel out the rest of the movie. If everyone in movies made the smart decision all the time, we wouldn't even have a horror genre, for example.
Jack Ryan is described in Clancy's novels as having "undistinguished features," which makes Harrison Ford seem to me like the perfect choice to play him, since I've always thought that, even though he's a brilliant and tremendously loved actor, he can't really act with his face very well. Consider one of my favorite examples of this, the close up shot of his face when he sends that kid into surgery in The Fugitive. You can literally see the effort he's putting into making his face do something moving, and it's just not happening. But the thing it, the shot still works. I don't get it, it's a mystery, as Philip Henslowe might say.
Harrison Ford has played more complex characters (and less complex, of course), and Jack Ryan gets better than this, but Patriot Games is a fun introduction of Ford playing the role, and is especially a must see for Clancy fans.
- Anonymous_Maxine
- Feb 20, 2008
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $45,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $83,351,587
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $18,511,191
- Jun 7, 1992
- Gross worldwide
- $178,051,587
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
- 2.35 : 1
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