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Overview

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Director:
Roger Donaldson
Writers:
Kenneth Fearing (novel)
Robert Garland (screen story)
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Release Date:
14 August 1987 (USA) more
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. full summary | add synopsis
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(7 articles)
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User Comments:
Sleazy beginning, but good more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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
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Additional Details

Runtime:
114 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Russian
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Annapolis, Maryland, USA more

Fun Stuff

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!" more
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. more
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. more
Soundtrack:
TWISTIN' U.S.A. more

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22 out of 28 people found the following comment useful:-
Sleazy beginning, but good, 10 February 2000
Author: gagewyn from Gainesville, FL

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.

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