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Synopsis: Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recruitment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak.
Director(s): Robert De Niro
Production: Universal Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
R
Year:
2006
167 min
$59,839,040
Website
3,173 Views


Sam Murach. I'm with the

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Mind if I walk along with you?

I had a chance to have a talk

with a fraternity brother of yours.

John Russell. The senator's son.

John said you might help us.

You're friendly with Dr. Fredericks?

He's my thesis advisor

if that's what you mean.

He's been recruiting faculty members

and students to join an organization

called the American-German

Cultural Committee.

It's a Nazi front.

Does he talk to you about that?

I'm a poetry student Mr. Murach.

I'm not political.

We'd be very interested in

finding out the names of some

of the other organizers

for the cultural committee.

Are you asking me to

spy on Dr. Fredericks?

I'm asking you to be a good citizen.

You blow that thing up it'll be fine.

I'll be seeing you.

In Poland, Hitler watches German

regiments steam across the river San.

This was part of the river line

which the invading army

forced in its flanking drive

through southern Poland.

The Nazi Fuehrer make a quick

tour in the conquered nation

among the soldiers in captured towns.

Hitler has given the

word of War and War it is.

Poland has been guaranteed

by Great Britain.... ?????

It is a great privilege to have

with us here tonight Mr. Haupt.

The Fuehrers education minister.

Mr. Haupt.

Good evening.

Thank you Dr. Fredericks,

and members of the

American-German cultural committee

for giving me the opportunity

to come to you here.

Germany has always been a country....

Excuse me.

Someone's in here!

Are you enjoying yourself Edward?

Very much so.

I'd like you to meet,

Mr. Haupt.

Dr. Manheim

Yes. We met.

I've been asked by the faculty chairman

to relinquish my post here at Yale.

Now, you'll hear many

reasons to what caused my departure.

Suffice is to say

I'm leaving with my name intact.

Good luck in your endeavors.

Oh, Edward.

What did I do to deserve this?

Have you such little regard for me

that you betray me for my

political beliefs?

You know and I know

Trumbull Stickney wrote

that poem in 1902.

You were my teacher.

You betrayed me.

piano playing

I thought we were going to a party.

You want to protect me

from them. Don't you?

No.

You think they will make fun of me....

That's not it. That's not true.

It's OK.

I'm happy to be with you.

Would you like to dance?

I'm not a very good dancer.

That's alright. I'm not

a good dancer either.

How does this song go?

Blue sky

smiling at me

nothing but blue sky

do I see.

Excuse me everybody,

I have an announcement.

I've just been told England and

France declared war on Germany.

But please continue dancing

and enjoying our music

and I'll update you as

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Eric Roth

Eric Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994). He also co-wrote the screenplays for several Oscar-nominated films: The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). more…

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