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Good Shepherd (2006)  link to Good Shepherd on IMDb  

Number: 567

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IMDb Rating:
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6.7/10 (90.5K votes)

Also known as: The Good Shepherd

Country: United States, 167 minutes

Spoken languages: English, German, Spanish, Russian

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller

Director(s): Robert De Niro

Storyline:
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.

Cast:

Matt Damon Edward Wilson
Angelina Jolie Margaret 'Clover' Russell
Alec Baldwin Sam Murach
Tammy Blanchard Laura
Billy Crudup Arch Cummings

Medium: DVD R/RW, Dolby Digital 5.1 - English

Location: Drawer 1 Slot 69

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1