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Title: The Good Shepherd (2006)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Matt Damon | ... | Edward Wilson | |
| Angelina Jolie | ... | Margaret 'Clover' Russell | |
| Alec Baldwin | ... | Sam Murach | |
| Tammy Blanchard | ... | Laura | |
| Billy Crudup | ... | Arch Cummings | |
| Robert De Niro | ... | Bill Sullivan | |
| Keir Dullea | ... | Senator John Russell, Sr. | |
| Michael Gambon | ... | Dr. Fredericks | |
| Martina Gedeck | ... | Hanna Schiller | |
| William Hurt | ... | Philip Allen | |
| Timothy Hutton | ... | Thomas Wilson | |
| Mark Ivanir | ... | Valentin Mironov #2 | |
| Gabriel Macht | ... | John Russell, Jr. | |
| Lee Pace | ... | Richard Hayes | |
| Joe Pesci | ... | Joseph Palmi | |
Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) heads C.I.A. covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Fidel 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 O.S.S., 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 this movie's narration as he closes in on the leak. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
I wasn't sure that a movie like this could or would still be made and released in this country.
No, it wasn't Mission Impossible 6. It didn't have the overwhelming special effects, chases, explosions and gunfights one might expect in a spy thriller. It didn't need them. Thrilling enough was the exposition of character (imagine that). Plot? Whose real life has ever had a tight plot line? Edward Wilson's life meandered along like many do. In fact, I found it even more interesting because the turns Wilson's life took seemed dictated by his character and not just by his chosen profession.
Courageous choices were made by DeNiro in making this film, by Damon in tackling the role with such coldness and stoicism, and by Jolie in passing on being a movie star in favor of being an actress.