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Plot

This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Reaganesque Donald Moffat) is murdered by a Colombian drug cartel. When Ryan discovers that the President's wealthy friend was in league with the cartel, the President's devious national security adviser (Harris Yulin) and an ambitious CIA deputy director (Henry Czerny) send a secret paramilitary force into Colombia to wipe out the drug lords. The force is captured and then abandoned by the President's lackeys. It falls to Ryan to enter Colombia and rescue them, aided only by a renegade operative named Clark (Willem Dafoe), with both his life and career on the line.
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for some intense action/violence and language.
Genre(s):
Action
Run Time:
141min.
Theatrical Release Date:
08/05/1994
DVD Release Date:
10/21/1998
Director(s):
Phillip Noyce
Starring:
Harrison Ford , Willem Dafoe , Anne Archer , Joaquim de Almeida , Henry Czerny
Themes:
Terrorism,Drug Trade,Fighting the System,Daring Rescues,Whistleblowers,Political Corruption
Tone:
Confrontational,Rousing,Tense
Keywords:
CIA (Central-Intelligence-Agency),against-the-system,agent [representative],bad-guy,betrayal,corruption,drugs,good-guy,government,guerrilla,investigation,investigator,killing,murder,one-against-odds,oppression,terrorism
Language:
English