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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 the thriller "Little Nikita" as a contrived and illogical package of a story, starring Sidney Poitier and River Phoenix. He criticizes the plot, the characters, the dialogue and the coincidences in this movie.
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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- Richard Benjamin
- PG
- Sidney Poitier
Dec 20, 2018 · Little Nikita 1988 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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An FBI agent tries to stop a Soviet spy who killed his partner 20 years ago and is now targeting his deep cover agents. He also befriends the son of a sleeper family and helps him avoid the spy-catcher sent by Moscow.
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.
