Patriot Games details

Movie Details:

  • Director: Phillip Noyce
  • Produced By: Paramount
  • Year: 1992
  • Run Time: 117 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: R (for violence, sexuality and language)
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Action
  • Filmed In: Color
  • Release: 1992 06 05 (USA)


Patriot Games

In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford plays former CIA agent Jack Ryan, taking over from Alec Baldwin, who had played author Tom Clancy's brainy protagonist in Hunt for Red October. This time around, Ryan foils an attempted assassination, thereby incurring the wrath of a maniacal Irish radical (Sean Bean). After seemingly neutralizing the villains, and deciding to celebrate the occasion with his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch), everything appears to be back to normal; then all hell breaks loose. Author Tom Clancy himself bemoaned the liberties taken with his novel in the final sequences; the picture scored with audiences, however, and soon inspired a followup, A Clear and Present Danger (1994), also starring Ford. by Hal Erickson, Rovi


Keywords:

  • agent [representative]
  • assassination
  • attack
  • revenge
  • CIA (Central-Intelligence-Agency)
  • courage
  • espionage
  • family
  • politician
  • protection
  • rescue
  • retirement
  • terrorism
  • vacation
  • IRA (Irish Republican Army)

Themes:

  • Woman In Jeopardy
  • Criminal's Revenge
  • Terrorism

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