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The Osterman Weekend (1983)
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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...
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| The Osterman Weekend Movie Review by Movie Addict (11/3/2007) |
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Too bad Tony Gilroy (Bourne trilogy) wasn't available to do the screenplay for this adaptation of a Robert Ludlum novel, as he seems to have a way to translate Ludlum's page-turning style to the screen. This was Sam Peckinpah's (The Wild Bunch, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ) last film, and it deserved a better...
(complete The Osterman Weekend review by Movie Addict)
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