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It's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you. - Spy Game
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Title: Spy Game

Release Date: 18 Nov 2001

Runtime: 2h 6m

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Universal Pictures, Beacon Communications, Kalima Productions, Metropolitan Filmexport, October Pictures, Red Wagon Entertainment, TOHO

Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Beacon Communications, Kalima Productions, Metropolitan Filmexport, October Pictures, Red Wagon Entertainment, TOHO

Overview: On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.

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Average Vote: 6.913 (2107 votes)

Cast

  • Nathan D. Muir: Robert Redford
  • Tom Bishop: Brad Pitt
  • Elizabeth Hadley: Catherine McCormack
  • Charles Harker: Stephen Dillane
  • Troy Folger: Larry Bryggman
  • Gladys Jennip: Marianne Jean-Baptiste
  • Dr. William Byars: Matthew Marsh
  • Robert Aiken: Todd Boyce
  • Vincent Vy Ngo: Michael Paul Chan
  • CIA Director Cy Wilson: Garrick Hagon
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