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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
3,319 Views


and if that happens

I'll be looking for patriotic,

honorable, bright young men,

from the right backgrounds to

manage the various departments.

In other words no Jews or negroes

and very few Catholics.

That's only because I'm a Catholic.

You'd be trained and commissioned

in the Army and posted overseas.

If it's something youre interested in you'd

have to be ready to leave at a moments notice.

I don't want your answer

now. Just think about it.

But this isn't a bunch of fraternity boys

sitting around playing with their pricks.

This is for real.

For America.

Lets go.

Have fun.

Behave yourselves.

I'm supposed to be looking

for the perfect husband.

Are you the perfect husband Mr. Wilson?

Perfect in every way.

Then is there some reason that you won't

put your arm around me?

You are the one...

I like this.

Very smart.

... or under the sun.

Whether near to me

Do you have a problem

with woman Mr. Bones.

Do you love me?

What?

Tell me you love me.

Do you love me.

I love you. I love you.

No. I still don't believe you.

Say it. Say it.

Look at me.

Stop. Stop.

I love you.

As soon as the world comes to

it's senses, I'm going to travel.

London. Paris. Rome.

You can come with me.

Is everything alright?

Fine.

We are worlds apart.

What do you mean?

I feel like I'm just a curiosity to you.

That. That is not. That's not true.

I feel like

I'm not real to you.

That is not true.

Anyway...

That's not how I feel about you.

Edward.

John?

I've been looking everywhere for you.

My sister.

She's pregnant

I know you'll do what's expected of you.

Do you Edward L. Wilson

take Margaret N. Russell

to be your lawfully wedded wife.

to love, honor and cherish

in sickness and in health

in good times and in bad times

until death do you apart.

I do.

I now pronounce you man and wife.

A man if uniform want to see you.

Excuse me mother.

Did your mother or I ever

tell you where we ....

Mr. Edward Wilson.

We need to speak alone sir.

Would you like to sit down?

No. Thank you sir.

General Sullivan sends his regards.

and to ask you if your still interested

in seeing the rest of the World.

Yes I...I certainly would be.

Good afternoon sir.

Thank you.

My orders came through.

I'll be going overseas.

When?

In one week.

What are you going to do Edward?

Save the World?

Your are safe here with me.

The photograph is particularly dark.

As we can see there is a Caucasian man

and a negro woman.

The resolution breaks

down pretty quickly.

The film stock is definitely Russian.

Low grade.

One of the areas we've been focusing on

is the mosquito netting...

The mosquito netting is predominantly in

Africa, southeast Asia,

any tropical climate.

The window curtains here

have a distinctive pattern

on them of Baobab trees.

Also seen in Africa.

Next to the curtains

we can see the building's ballestry.

There's a pigeon here. It's

kind of hard to make out.

Pigeons are mostly found in urban areas

town squares...

If you listen closely

you will hear an airplane.

We've washed it out.

By the sound of the

thrust of the jet engines

we can determine that

it's a plane taking off

no more than 1000 feet off the ground.

Which would further

suggest a large urban area.

On a section of the tape

when you clear up background noise

you can hear a female voice.

I love you.

People who really love each

other don't have secrets.

Your are safe here.

Assuming we're talking

about the same woman,

the linguists tell us

her accent is French.

There's one word here

we can't make it out yet.

There is an unidentifiable

noise washing her out.

Placed throughout the

recording at a high frequency

suggests an air raid siren of some sort.

We're going to keep playing with it.

This is the time fore

everyone to stand together

and hold firm

as they are doing.

I express my admiration

for the exemplary manner

in which all the air raid

precaution services of London

are being discharged.

May I help you?

Yes.

I here to see the tailor

about a fitting for a new suit.

Certainly, and what kind of suit

would you be interested this evening?

A tweed or worsted.

Perhaps a nice gabardine.

Perhaps, a worsted and a tweed.

Both single breasted?

Yes.

Two or three buns, sir.

Three buns.

If you might come this way, please sir.

Please. Our senior tailor

will be right with you, sir.

Thank you.

Welcome to London.

You're going to have to learn

as quickly and thoroughly as possible

the English system of intelligence.

The black cards, particularly

counter intelligence.

The uses of information, disinformation

and how their use is ultimately...

power.

They've agreed to open

their operations to us.

They can't win the war without us

but they don't really want us here.

Intelligence, is their mother's

milk and they don't like sharing

the royal tit with people

that don't have titles.

Your London tutor is

waiting to meet you.

This way sir.

I should've know better

that to use Stickney.

Job well done Mr. Wilson.

You blew a two year operation for me.

I told general Sullivan

to keep an eye on you.

Just as well, really.

I was beginning to long for

the bone chilling cold of home.

It isn't personal.

Mr. Carlson.

Is this the American Trade Bureau?

Which product?

Dried goods.

Youre late.

Yeah. That's what my mother said.

Raymond Ducca Brocco,

born may 8th, 1907, New York City.

St. Ignatius High School,

Fordham University.

Married Anita Delveccio.

Stephanie and David.

Six foot two, 182 pounds,

black hair, brown eyes,

military record, 5 years,

intelligence.

Anything you'd like to add?

You want to look up my ass too?

You're working for me Sergeant Brocco.

I'm working for the

Unites States government...

In this office I am the

United States government.

You're pretty sure of yourself

for somebody who just began...

They wouldn't tell me your name.

Then how do you know you're

not in the wrong place.

They said you were a serious SOB

that didn't have any a sense of humor.

Can't be two of you.

phone rings

Are you going to answering it.

Depends if I'm working

for you or if I'm not.

One of your jobs, sergeant,

is answering the telephone.

Yes sir.

Use your tradecraft well,

particularly in the

use of black propaganda.

and the ingredient known as playback.

Understanding how effectively

your own disinformation

is actually working on the enemy.

It's almost four.

How do you spell syphilis.

Is it one L or two.

Syphilis.

One....I think.

It's vital to penetrate the

enemies intelligent services.

Push them into an

unreal world, as it were.

Doctor in England today

announced that medical records taken

from Adolf Hitler's personal physician

Dr. Theodore Morell

reveal that Mr. Hitler

had contracted syphilis

while serving the German armed

forces during World War I.

The very qualities that make

a good intelligence officer

a suspicions mind

a love of complexity and detail,

are the very qualities of

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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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