No Way Out (1987)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Roger Donaldson

Writers:

Kenneth Fearing (novel)
Robert Garland (screen story)

Release Date:

14 August 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Is it a crime of passion, or an act of treason?

Plot:

A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.

Plot Keywords:

Mistress | Officer | Navy | KGB | Pentagon

Cast

Kevin Costner	...	Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell
Gene Hackman	...	Defense Secretary David Brice
Sean Young	...	Susan Atwell
Will Patton	...	Scott Pritchard
Howard Duff	...	Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
George Dzundza	...	Sam Hesselman
Jason Bernard	...	Major Donovan
Iman	...	Nina Beka
Fred Dalton Thompson	...	CIA Director Marshall
Leon Russom	...	Kevin O'Brien
Dennis Burkley	...	Mate
Marshall Bell	...	Contra #1
Chris D.	...	Contra #2
Michael Shillo	...	Schiller
Nicholas Worth	...	Cup Breaker

Runtime:

114 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Russian

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | South Korea:18 | USA:R (certificate #28267) | Brazil:14 | Australia:M | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | West Germany:12 | Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

Annapolis, Maryland, USA

Company:

Orion Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

The big red bumper sticker on the back of Sam Hessleman's wheelchair seat reads: "Of Course I'm drunk, I'm no stunt driver!"

Goofs:

Continuity: When running away from the assassins, Tom slides down the handrail of an escalator, which gets dirt on the seat of his pants. As he turns to run further, the dirt has suddenly disappeared.

Quotes:

Schiller: In the Philippines when you passed that bag of underwear, Moscow was not amused! I should have acted then. But now it is no longer possible for you to remain United States. This bizarre incident has given them their Yuri, Evgeny Segevich.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: Leap of Faith (#5.5)" (2007)

Soundtrack:

TWISTIN' U.S.A.

Sleazy beginning, but good

No Way Out is a suspense movie set during the cold war. Political intrigue within the US government is the focus of the film. The politically powerful Brice accidentally kills his mistress. Things get out of hand and he decides to frame her other lover as a spy. He knows that she is seeing someone else but has no idea who. Farrel, her other lover, is the man assigned to her case. He realizes that the investigation will eventually expose him, and when the investigators begin using a computer to restore a partially developed polaroid of Farrel found in the dead girlÕs things he has a good idea of how much time he has. There are some tense moments as Farrel trys to expose Brice before he is caught. Also there are a string of neat twists at the end, which succeed in not being corny.

This is worth your time. I definitely recommend it for fans of military suspense or cold war movies.