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\nSpy game - Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Tony Scott
\nThreat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities
\nMovie propaganda
\nCIA operative Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) is on the brink of retirement from the field when he learns his protégé Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) has been arrested in China on a charge of espionage. No stranger to the machinations of the CIA\'s top echelon, Muir hones all his skills and irreverent manner in order to find a way to free Bishop. As he embarks on his mission, Muir recalls how he recruited and trained the young rookie, then a serving Sergeant in Vietnam, their turbulent times together as front-line operatives and the woman who ultimately threatened their friendship.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
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- Film spy thriller action CIA agent China recruit mentor protégé capture jail rescue investigation \n
Persons of interest
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- Robert Redford .... Nathan D Muir \n
- Brad Pitt .... Tom Bishop \n
- Catherine McCormack .... Elizabeth Hadley \n
- Stephen Dillane .... Charles Harker \n
- Larry Bryggman .... Troy Folger \n
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste .... Gladys Jennip \n
- Matthew Marsh .... Doctor William Byars \n
- Todd Boyce .... Robert Aiken \n
- Michael Paul Chan .... Vincent Vy Ngo \n
- Garrick Hagon .... CIA Director Cy Wilson \n
- Andrew Grainger .... Andrew Unger \n
- Bill Buell .... Fred Kappler \n
- Colin Stinton .... Henry Pollard \n
- Michael Frost Beckner .... Screenwriter \n
- Tony Scott .... Director \n
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- Spy game official movie site \n
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- NB: Because of the attacks on the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon the release of this film may be delayed or the content altered \n
- Studios and distributors: \n
- Universal Pictures \n
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Intelligence analyst
\nSpecial Agent Matti
\nTheatrical report
\nThe bumper boy\'s book of spies and secret agents.
\nUnderneath that is the quasi-homosexual love pact between Nathan and Tom, the love that not only dare not speak its name (let alone asking or telling) but dare not even be thought about. Male bonding, especially male bonding under adversity and imminent threat of death, is sublimated into "mateship" because (these days) gay stuff is bad. Go back a couple of thousand years and the greatest army in the ancient world was a bunch of gay blokes who fought for each others\' lives and honour. They were undefeated for a century, which is longer than any other military group. Nathan would be the older, experienced man who cares for, protects and educates Tom, his younger lover. In time, Tom would grow up and go on to take charge of another youth and teach him the ways of the world. The fact that Nathan goes to such incredible lengths to protect one more spy out of hundreds, even one whom he brought into the fold, shows a depth of feeling that goes beyond mere professionalism.
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\nWhat you get from Spy game is a rattling good tale of intrigue and double crosses, plots and ploys and plans within plans, backup plans and strategy on the run. It\'s a giant family size serving of action, adventure, thrills and spills. Brad is good as the determined young spy thinking with his guts and his cajones. Robert is good as the determined old spy thinking with his brain and his cajones.
\nAnyone with cajones will enjoy it.
\nSecurity censorship classification
\nM (Medium level violence, low level coarse language)
\nSurveillance time
\n128 minutes (2:08 hours)
\nNot for public release in Australia before date
\nFilm: 24 January 2002
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