No Way Out 1987

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 114 min

genre: political

theme: neo-noir

director: Roger Donaldson

Score: 6 / 10

No Way Out is a 1987 American neo-noir political action thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Will Patton and Sean Young. Howard Duff, George Dzundza, Jason Bernard, Fred Thompson, and Iman appear in supporting roles. The film is based on the 1946 novel The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing, previously filmed as The Big Clock (1948) and Police Python 357 (1976).

Plot

In the opening scene of the movie, set in a house in Washington, near the Pentagon, Lt. Cdr. Tom Farrell of the Office of Naval Intelligence is shown being debriefed by 2 other men. He is tired and bloodied. His interrogators press him on how Farrell came to meet the Secretary of Defense David Brice.

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author	Robert Garland
contentLocation	Washington, D.C.
director	Roger Donaldson
editor	Neil Travis
genre	action crime drama political thriller
keywords	address book army cid begin betray break in build ceiling central intelligence agency cia climb date deep cover director of the central intelligence agency director of the cia drive enhance espionage gay help hide inaugural ball kgb kill lock mole movie set national security naval intelligence office of naval intelligence old friend open pentagon prime suspect romantic weekend secretary of defense sleeper agent soviet union state department suspect track down u.s. department of state united states army criminal investigation command united states secretary of defense warn wash young age
musicBy	Maurice Jarre
producer	Laura Ziskin Robert Garland
publisher	Orion Pictures
recordedAt	Baltimore
theme	action drama independent lgbt-related neo-noir political thriller psychological thriller spy