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Actors: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle, Richard A. Dysart, Lori Singer, David Suchet
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Falcon and the Snowman |
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THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN was based on the Robert Lindsey book and directed by John Schlesinger in 1984.
Christopher Boyce (Hutton) is a young Californian who's just been hired in a company in charge of delivering sensitive documents to the C.I.A. By reading these documents, he becomes aware of the secret international activities of the agency and, shocked by what he learns, decides to give these informations to the Soviets.
Boyce asks his long-time friend Daulton Lee (Penn) to go to Mexico and contact the Soviet embassy in Mexico City. During a few weeks, they will manage to pass photocopies and microfilms to their contact Alex (Suchet) and earn thousands of dollars. But Lee, a drug addict, starts to talk too much and irritate the Soviet agents.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
The terrorist enemy is...
- commies!
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- govt employee
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Russian
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Mexico
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 0 (not a murder mystery)
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing breasts
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 ()
Is this movie based on a
- book
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