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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.
- (6K)
- 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.
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.
Roy Parmenter (Sidney Poitier) is an FBI agent with a long-standing vendetta against a Russian spy named Scuba (Richard Lynch).
- (15)
- Richard Benjamin
- PG
- Sidney Poitier
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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.
Directed by Richard Benjamin from a screenplay by John Hill and Bo Goldman, Little Nikita is quite a surprise-a film that moves through several layers of irony and absurdism to arrive at a strong and solid emotional core.
