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Little Nikita is a 1988 American thriller film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier. The film marks the first collaboration between Phoenix and Poitier (the second being Sneakers in 1992).
Mar 18, 1988 · Little Nikita: Directed by Richard Benjamin. With Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins, Caroline Kava. An F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Richard Benjamin
- 1988-03-18
Roger Ebert pans this thriller about a teenage boy who discovers his parents are Russian spies. He criticizes the plot as absurd, illogical and unbelievable, and the characters as chess pieces with no chemistry.
Summaries. An F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son. Roy Parmenter is a veteran FBI agent who has spent the last 20 years trying to find the Russian agent who killed his partner whom he calls Scuba.
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Roy Parmenter (Sidney Poitier) is an FBI agent with a long-standing vendetta against a Russian spy named Scuba (Richard Lynch). Now, Scuba is blackmailing the Soviet government by tracking down ...
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- Mystery & Thriller
- PG
Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to extort the Soviets; to prove he's serious, he's killing their agents one by one, including "sleepers," agents under deep cover awaiting orders.
