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03/08/1994 Action, Drama, Thriller 2h 21m
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Truth needs a soldier.

Overview

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.

  1. Phillip Noyce

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Harrison Ford

    Jack Ryan

  2. Willem Dafoe

    John Clark

  3. Joaquim de Almeida

    Col. Felix V. Cortez

  4. Henry Czerny

    CIA Deputy Director Robert Ritter

  5. Harris Yulin

    National Security Advisor James Cutter

  6. Donald Moffat

    President Bennett

  7. Miguel Sandoval

    Ernesto Escobedo

  8. Raymond Cruz

    Domingo Chavez

  9. Anne Archer

    Dr. Cathy Ryan

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2019-03-23
These drug cartels represent a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

The third outing for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan - and the second with Harrison Ford in the lead - is a tightly constructed political thriller. Condensing Clancy's door stoppers is no easy task, but the makers here, headed by director Phillip Noyce, have manged to keep the pic brisk and intelligent for entertainment worth.

Plot essentially boils down to America's war on drugs and the Colombian cartel at the helm of such operations. Naturally all is a bit suspect in the American corridors of...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$62,000,000.00

Revenue
$215,887,717.00

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