THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1985
• Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Academy Award™ winner Timothy Hutton ('Ordinary People') and Sean Penn ('Dead Man Walking') deliver “superb performances” (Variety) in a true-story spy thriller that is “scathing, arresting” (The New York Times) and laced with white-knuckle excitement. From Oscar® winners John Schlesinger ('Midnight Cowboy') and Steven Zaillian ('Schindler’s List'), the film blows the lid off the modern-day American dream with its riveting story of two young men of privilege, money and ambition who end up selling out their country, ruining their families and destroying their lives. ; ; Chris Boyce (Hutton) works a low-level job at a defense plant where he uncovers documents that prove that the C.I.A. is secretly coercing foreign governments. He confides in his conniving, fast-talking friend, Andrew Daulton Lee (Penn), a reckless drug dealer and user, who convinces him to sell this information to the Soviets for big bucks. Lee boldly cuts a deal with the KGB, but soon the stakes spin out of control as the Soviets up the ante, Lee descends further into drug abuse, and the C.I.A. prepare to take the informants down!
• Cast: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle, Joyce Van Patten, Rob Reed, Rob Newell, Karen West, Art Camacho, Annie Kozuch, Richard Dysart, Priscilla Pointer, Chris Makepeace, Dorian Harewood, Mady Kaplan, Macon McCalman, Jerry Hardin, Nicholas Pryor, Betty Lou Henson, Stanley Grover, Bob Arbogast, David Suchet, Boris Lyoskin, George C. Grant, Anatoli Davydov, Lori Singer, Jennifer Runyon, Daniel McDonald, Marvin J. McIntyre, Sam Ingraffia, Tom Nolan, James Hardie, Burke Byrnes, Vic Polizos, Drew Snyder, Michael Ironside, Bob Nelson, Arthur Taxier, Philip Corey, Martha Campos, Herbie Wallace, Steven Miller, Jeff Seyfried, Steve Duffy, Carlos Romano, Valerie Wildman, George Belanger, Leopoldo Francés, Abel Franco, Raúl Martínez, Guillermo Ríos, Jaime Garza, Spiro Agnew, Roger Cudney, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Richard Masur, Richard Nixon, John Ratzenberger, Lena Rydén, John Sabol, John Schlesinger, Robert Lindsey, Steven Zaillian
• Director: John Schlesinger
• Runtime: 2:11
• Company: Orion Pictures Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment LLC (MGM Home Entertainment LLC)
• Media Format: Movie