Spy Game

Year:

2001

Duration:

126 min | Turkey:114 min (TV version)

Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

IMDB rate:

7

Director:

Tony Scott

Awards:

3 nominations

Details

Country: Germany

Release Date: 2001-11-21

Filming Locations: Queens Lane, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Earnings

Budget: $92,000,000

Opening Weekend: $21,689,125 (USA) (25 November 2001)

Gross: $62,326,785 (USA) (3 February 2002)

Cast

Actor

Character

Brad Pitt

Spy Game

Robert Redford

Nathan D. Muir

Catherine McCormack

Elizabeth Hadley

Stephen Dillane

Charles Harker

Larry Bryggman

Troy Folger

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Gladys Jennip

Matthew Marsh

Dr. William Byars

Todd Boyce

Robert Aiken

Michael Paul Chan

Vincent Vy Ngo

Garrick Hagon

CIA Director Cy Wilson

Andrew Grainger

Andrew Unger

Bill Buell

Fred Kappler

Colin Stinton

Henry Pollard

Ted Maynard

CIA Administrator

Tom Hodgkins

CIA Lobby Guard

Rufus Wright

Folger's Secretary

Demetri Goritsas

Billy Hyland

Quinn Collins

OPS Center Security Officer

Sam Scudder

Back Bencher

Yann Johnson

CIA Back Bencher

Pat McGrath

Cleaner

Shane Rimmer

Estate Agent

David Hemmings

Harry Duncan

James Aubrey

Mitch Alford

In-Sook Chappell

Alford's Receptionist (as In Sook Chappell)

Benedict Wong

Tran

Ken Leung

Li

Adrian Pang

Jiang

Ho Yi

Prison Warden (as Ho-Yi)

David Cheung

Down's Prisoner (as David Y. Cheung)

Tony Xu

Interrogator

Mark Sung

Ambulance Driver

David Tse

Prison Doctor (as David K.S. Tse)

Logan Wong

Prison Guard

Hon Ping Tang

Prison Guard

Daniel Tse

Warden's Lieutenant (as Dan Tse)

Vincent Wang

Outer Gate Guard

Stuart Milligan

Vietnam: Captain

Joseph Chanet

Vietnam: VC General

Eddie Yeoh

Vietnam: General Hun Chea

Freddie Joe Farnsworth

Vietnam: Radioman

Joerg Stadler

Frederick Schmidt - Berlin

Zsolt Zágoni

Berlin: West German Businessman

Balázs Tardy

Vopo #1 - Berlin

Pál Oberfrank

Berlin: Vopo #2

Géza Schramek

Berlin: East German Refugee

Imre Csuja

Berlin: Bar Owner

Melinda Völgyi

Berlin: Bar Owner's Wife

Károly Rékasi

Berlin: East German Border Guard

Kimberly Paige

Sandy - Berlin (as Kimberly Tufo)

Iain Smith

Berlin: Ambassador Cathcart

Gregory Groth

Berlin: CIA Training Instructor

Peter Linka

Berlin: CIA Polygraph

Omid Djalili

Beirut: Doumet

Amidou

Dr. Ahmed - Beirut

Nabil Massad

Beirut: Sheik Salameh

Mohamed Picasso

Colonel Ajami - Beirut

Aziz Ait Essahmi

Beirut: Checkpoint Guard

Moustapha Moulay

Beirut: Arab Businessman

Mohamed Quatib

Beirut: Motorcyclist / Decoy Man

Farid Regragui

Beirut: Suicide Van Driver

Dale Dye

Commander Wiley - Rescue Sequence

Tim Briggs

Rescue Sequence: Heli Pilot

Frank Nall

Reporters: CNN Reporter

Ian Porter

Reporters: US-China Reporter

Charlotte Rampling

Berlin: Anne Cathcart

Ian Boo Khoo

Chinese Prisoner (uncredited)

Anita Deutsch

A Girl (uncredited)

James Embree

Special Forces Team Member - Rescue Sequence (uncredited)

Philip Harvey

Lift CIA Agent (uncredited)

Tibor Kenderesi

Old Man in Window - Berlin (uncredited)

Tong Lung

Chinese Prison Guard (uncredited)

Andrea Osvárt

Muir's Cousin (uncredited)

Wil Röttgen

East German Refugee #2 - Berlin (uncredited)

Chuen Tsou

Prison Guard (uncredited)

Matthew Walker

Digger Gibson (uncredited)

Terrance Ottis Williams

Lloyds of London Office Guy (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Kimberly Paige, playing the part of Sandy at the embassy in Berlin, is wife of the former US ambassador to Hungary, the location where the Berlin scenes were filmed.

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The coffee cup Bishop drinks from before finding Hadley's empty apartment is nearly identical to the coffee cups seen at CIA in Langley.

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Part of the film was originally set to have been filmed in Israel, but due to the sudden escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (in September-October 2000), and following the requirements of the actors' insurance companies, the filming took place in Morocco instead.

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Goofs

Muir, after having Bishop elicit a piece of information, tells Bishop he gave out 4 facts about himself (Bishop) for one dubious piece of information: "You're straight, you're engaged, tomorrow is your girl's birthday, and you have no taste in women's fashion... What if she was an asset: You told her four lies that now have to be true." But Bishop *is* straight. He only told 3 lies.

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When Bishop chastises Muir on his views of Hadley's apparent neutrality, his mouth isn't moving.

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The final scene when Bishop learns that the rescue operation is called "Dinner Out" is emotionally appealing, but not believable. Bishop is supposed to hear the voice of the helicopter pilot when the pilot is talking through the radio of his helmet to the base "We are inbound, operation Dinner Out accomplished". Bishop has no helmet, and the helicopter is flying with the rear doors open. There is no way he could have hear the pilot, who was not facing him, so he could not even read his lips. The noise of the helicopter would prevent him from hearing the pilot who was talking to his microphone in a normal voice.

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Quotes

Tom Bishop: I thought spies drank martinis.

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Nathan Muir: You just gave her four pieces of personal information for one dubious impersonal fact.

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Troy Fogler: [re-enters the room looking faintly amused] There's been... an incident, in China.

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