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The Assignment (1997)
Director: Christian Duguay
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley, Claudia Ferri
Runtime119 min
Rating18
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Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.
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Fans of intense thrillers and action-packed spy stories will appreciate the 1997 film The Assignment, directed by Christian Duguay and featuring a strong cast including Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, and Ben Kingsley. The film blends high-stakes cat-and-mouse intrigue with gritty realism, as a seasoned CIA agent tracks an elusive international assassin across continents.
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The Assignment is a 1997 spy action thriller film directed by Christian Duguay and starring Aidan Quinn, with Donald Sutherland and Ben Kingsley. The film, written by Dan Gordon and Sabi H. Shabtai, is set mostly in the late 1980s and deals with a CIA plan to use Quinn's character to masquerade as the Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal.
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