Spy Game (2001)


Robert Redford          Nathan Muir
Brad Pitt               Tom Bishop
Catherine McCormack     Elizabeth Hadley
Stephen Dillane         Charles Harker
Larry Bryggman          Troy Folger
Marianne Jean-Baptiste  Gladys Jennip
Matthew Marsh (II)      Doctor Byars
Todd Boyce              Robert Aiken
Michael Paul Chan       Vincent Vy Ngo
Garrick Hagon           Cy Wilson
Andrew Grainger         Andrew Unger
Bill Buell              Fred Kappler
Colin Stinton           Henry Pollard
Ted Maynard             CIA Adminstrator
Tom Hodgkins            CIA Lobby Guard
Rufus Wright            Fogler's Secretary
Demetri Goritsas        Billy Hyland

Directed by:            Tony Scott
Produced by:            Armyan Bernstein, Iain Smith, Thomas Bliss


There was a time when CIA operative Nathan Muir and his protege Tom Bishop were inseparable, 
travelling the world and tasting everything it had to offer... from Vietnam to Berlin to Beirut. 
In a profession fraught with danger and uncertainty, Muir and Bishop forged an uncommonly close 
friendship based on mutual respect and affection. But that was years ago. Now, on the brink of 
his retirement from the agency, Muir learns that Bishop has gone rogue. His one-time protege 
has been jailed in Beijing on espionage charges after attempting to break a prisoner out of 
China. Years of bad blood and hurt feelings are washed away in a flood of memories of adventures 
shared by the two men as Muir takes on his most dangerous - and personal - mission ever.

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CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford) is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his 
protege Tom Bishop (Pitt) has been arrested in China for 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 to free Bishop, Muir recalls how he recruited and 
trained the young rookie, at that time a sergeant in Vietnam, their turbulent times together as 
operatives and the woman who threatened their friendship.

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1991: the Cold War is ending. Just days before the US President is to visit China for trade talks, 
a CIA operative named Bishop is captured in a rogue operation at a Chinese prison. He'll be shot 
in 24 hours unless the President steps in. CIA honchos hunker down at Langley, controlling the 
damage to the diplomatic mission by hanging Bishop out to dry. Enter Nathan Muir, one day before 
retirement from the Agency, the man who recruited and trained Bishop. Can he find a way to get the 
President to free Bishop; if that fails, can he engineer a rescue? He hangs around Langley, telling 
stories about Bishop, as he gathers intelligence, looks for opportunities, and runs his own spy 
game.