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Little Nikita is a 1988 American thriller film starring Sidney Poitier and River Phoenix as an FBI agent and a teenage spy. The film was shot in San Diego and received mixed reviews and low box office returns.
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.
- (6.1K)
- 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.
A veteran FBI agent tries to stop a Soviet spy who killed his partner 20 years ago and is now extorting the Russians. He also befriends the son of a deep cover agent family and uncovers their secret.
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...
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- Richard Benjamin
- PG
- Sidney Poitier
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A timely espionage thriller which stars River Phoenix as a seemingly average teenager, except in one respect--his real name is Nikita. River Phoenix has been living a dangerous lie and Sidney ...