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Spy Game is a 2001 film, directed by Tony Scott, and starring Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. The film grossed $143,049,560 worldwide ($62,362,560 domestically). All figures are in USD.

Plot details

Set in 1991, the film depicts the U.S. and Chinese Governments on the verge of a major trade agreement and the American President due to pay a visit to China to seal the deal. When the Central Intelligence Agency gets word that operative Tom Bishop has been captured trying to free a terrorist from a Chinese prison, is being questioned under torture and will be executed within twenty-four hours unless he is claimed by the U.S. Government, they scramble to decide whether to allow Bishop to die or to claim him and potentially destroy the trade agreement, a decision made more difficult by the fact that Bishop was working as a rogue agent, outside control of the agency.

In an attempt to quickly deal with the situation, CIA executives call in Nathan Muir, an aging mid-level agent on his last day before retirement, and the man who recruited Bishop. Although they tell Muir that they simply need him to act as a "stop gap" to fill in some holes in their background files, the officals are in reality hoping that what he gives them will provide the smoking gun they need to justify letting Bishop die. Realizing as much, Muir attempts to save Bishop by leaking the story to CNN through a contact in Hong Kong, believing that the CIA will rescue Tom once a public outcry puts pressure on them to do so. Unfortunately for Muir, the tactic only stalls them, as a phone call to the FCC from a high ranking executive results in CNN retracting the story.

With his plan squashed, Nathan resorts to far more dangerous tactics, secretly creating a forged urgent operational directive from the CIA Director to commence Operation Dinner Out: a daring rescue mission spearheaded by the U.S. Marines. Using his life savings of $282,000 USD, Nathan bribes a Chinese official to cut power from the prison for thirty minutes, during which time the rescue team will retrieve Bishop along with the woman he'd gone in to get.

Main cast

See Cast of Spy Game for a more comprehensive cast list.

Robert Redford
- Nathan D. Muir
Brad Pitt
- Tom Bishop
Catherine McCormack
- Elizabeth Hadley
Stephen Dillane - Charles Harker
Larry Bryggman
- Troy Folger
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
- Gladys Jennip
Ken Leung
- Li
David Hemmings
- Harry Duncan

Filming locations include

HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building, presented as the American embassy (note that there is actually a U.S. consulate general, but no embassy in Hong Kong). See Hong Kong in films.
Budapest, Hungary, shown as Cold War Berlin in the film. The movie was shot here because Berlin has modernized a lot since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Israel and Morocco became 1980s Beirut in the film. The crew started off in Israel, but had to shift to Morocco because of the PLO-led Intifada which broke out in late 2000.

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