Enemy of the State (1998)

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Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Rating: R
Release Date: Nov 20, 1998
Running Time: 127 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
An attorney is entangled in a web of national politics when a reporter friend accidentally records the murder of a senator. Unaware that he is in possession of the reporter's video, the attorney becomes the target of a National Security Agency investigation which nearly succeeds in destroying his personal and professional life. Only when he meets the mysterious Brill, a surveillance and information professional, does he begin to understand the stakes in this game.
cast + crew
Director
Robert Clayton Dean
Brill
Reynolds
Rachel Banks
Carla Dean
Congressman Albert
Christa Hawkins
Hicks
Pratt
Bingham
screenplay
Screenplay
Screenplay
Screenplay
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Associate Producer
Mill Film executive producer
reviews
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December 8, 2000
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer damn near atones for the inanities of Armageddon by turning out this dynamite thriller about the abuses of surveillance technology. To keep us glued to a complex, often maddeningly implausible plot, he borrows a trick from the master, Alfred Hitchcock, who knew you had to cast a star -- say, Jimmy Stewart (The Man Who Knew Too Much) or Cary Grant (North By Northwest) -- whom an audience would follow anywhere. Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott have wisely set their… Continued