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The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 American spy drama film directed by John Schlesinger. The screenplay by Steven Zaillian is based on the 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey , and tells the true story of two young American men, Christopher Boyce ( Timothy Hutton ) and Andrew ...
Feb 8, 1985 · The Falcon and the Snowman: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle, Joyce Van Patten. The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
The story of their case was told in Robert Lindsey's best-selling 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman. This book was turned into a film of the same title in 1985 by director John Schlesinger starring Timothy Hutton as Boyce and Sean Penn as Lee.
After Chris drops out of seminary school, his ex-FBI father gets him a job at defense contractor RTX. He is quickly promoted from mail boy to a security communications position, RTA who is contracted to receive and transmit secret communiqués for their clients, who include the CIA.
A drug-addicted friend of Boyce's, Daulton Lee (Sean Penn), becomes involved in the plot and acts as a middleman between Boyce and the Soviets, but the erratic Lee fails to...
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The Falcon and the Snowman. Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn deliver superb performances as two friends from affluent families in a true-story spy thriller that is scathing, arresting and laced with white-knuckle excitement. Directed by the legendary John Schlesinger. 525 IMDb 6.8 2 h 11 min 1985. X-Ray R.
The movie stars Timothy Hutton as Christopher Boyce, a seminarian who has a crisis of conscience, drops out of school and ends up working almost by accident for a message-routing center of the CIA. Sean Penn is his best friend, Daulton Lee.
The Falcon And The Snowman. 1985 · 2 hr 12 min. R. Thriller · Crime · Drama. The true story about two childhood friends from affluent American families who betray their country when they decide to sell government secrets to the Russians. Subtitles: English. Starring: Timothy Hutton Sean Penn. Directed by: John Schlesinger.
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
The Falcon and the Snowman. The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union. IMDb 6.8 2 h 6 min 1985. 13+.
