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Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Release Date: Jan 31, 2003
Running Time: 115 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
James Clayton might not have the attitude of a typical recruit, but he is one of the smartest graduating seniors in the country--and he's just the person that Walter Burke wants in the Agency. James regards the CIA's mission as an intriguing alternative to an ordinary life, but before he becomes an Ops Officer, James has to survive The Farm, where the veteran Burke teaches him the ropes and rules of the game. James quickly rises through the ranks and falls for Layla, one of his fellow recruits. But just when James starts to question his role and decides to "wash out," Burke taps him for a special assignment to root out a mole. It soon becomes clear that at The Farm, the CIA's old maxims are true: "trust no one" and "nothing is at it seems."
cast + crew
Director
Walter Burke
James Clayton
Layla
Zack
Ronnie
Instructor #1
Dennis Slayne
Dell Rep (Bill Rudolph)
Co-Ed #1
Brunette at Blue Ridge
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Producer
Producer
Co-Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
reviews
January 24, 2003
After a zingy setup that slips us inside the CIA's secret training ground -- known as the Farm -- The Recruit runs so many scams on its characters and its audience that you won't give a damn what happens. Al Pacino and co-star Colin Farrell sure don't. Maybe that's why they hijack the desperately gimmicky script by Roger Towne, Kurt Wimmer and Mitch Glazer and turn it into a knockabout acting class. Be grateful. Unlike the movie, these guys really are worth watching. "I am a scary judge of…
A brilliant college graduate is recruited by the CIA but must first survive The Farm, the Agency's treacherous training program, before he can enter into the wonderful world of spies. Story The Recruit wants us to believe the film's main thrust revolves around the Central Intelligence Agency's old maxim ''nothing is what it seems.'' Had they stuck with this framework, perhaps the film would have been more compelling. Instead, it lapses into the expected and the implausible, where you can pretty… |
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