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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396219878
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledFrenchDubbed
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 21987
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Running Time: 286 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: August 05, 2007
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/23/2007 Run time: 286 minutes
Amazon.com:
Handsomely mounted, epic in scope, and featuring an outstanding cast, TNT's The Company might restore some much-needed luster to the image of the Central Intelligence Agency (then again, perhaps not). Based on Robert Littell's popular historical novel of the same name, the show commingles real and invented characters as it traces the CIA's role in several major events, from the earliest days of the Cold War through the collapse of the Soviet Union, with particular attention given to the division of Berlin into East and West in the 1950s, the anti-Communist uprising in mid-'50s Hungary, and the disastrous Bay of Pigs operation in the early '60s.
The first of the miniseries' three parts introduces us to Yale graduates Jack McAuliffe (Chris O'Donnell), Leo Kritzky (Alessandro Nivola), and Yevgeny Tsipin (Rory Cochrane); the first two are recruited by the CIA, but the Russian-born Tsipin sides with the KGB. The initial focus is on the CIA's efforts to find a Soviet mole who's been interfering with the agency's work and putting many American lives at risk. Working with mentor Harvey "The Sorcerer" Torriti (Alfred Molina), who calls him "Sport" and delights in pointing out that such matters are nothing less than a life-and-death struggle between good and evil and right and wrong, McAuliffe skulks around Berlin, where his principal informant and soon-to-be love interest is a lovely young ballerina (Alexandra Maria Lara) with a few secrets of her own. Meanwhile, back in Washington, the colorfully-named CIA counter-intelligence expert James Jesus Angleton (a real guy portrayed with low-key intensity by Michael Keaton) slowly realizes that the mole in question is one of his old pals. And it doesn't stop there. Turns out there's another double agent (codename "Sasha") working for the Reds; this one's deeply embedded in the CIA, and Angleton, a chain-smoking obsessive whose behavior becomes increasingly cold and peculiar, devotes years (and most of the series' third installment) to outing him. The process by which he does just that, culminating in some fairly excruciating interrogation scenes, provides The Company's best moments--especially because we don't know until the very end whether Angleton has fingered the actual Sasha or not.
Viewers unfamiliar with the CIA's history and methods aren't likely to be very encouraged by what's depicted here--especially in the second part, in which the agency's misadventures in Hungary and Cuba reveal it (as well as the U.S. government overall) to be not merely ineffective but disastrously inept, as well as shockingly callous and hypocritical when it comes to lending material support to the causes it claims to espouse. Still, the series does a good job with many of the elements common to such fare (Robert De Niro's 2006 film The Good Shepherd covers some of the same ground). Codes are written and deciphered. Secrets are kept… and revealed. Shots are fired, and some of them connect. People die, good and bad alike. And even if some of the scenes are a bit overheated and melodramatic, all in all, The Company (which was written by Ken Nolan, directed by Mikael Salomon, and produced by John Calley and Ridley and Tony Scott) is smart and entertaining. And some of it's even true. --Sam Graham
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I'm 63 years old; and, this Movie brought to Life the History I remember. The Russian Tanks Crushing the Hungarian Revolt, in 1958 & the Soviet Union's Invasion of Czechoslovakia, in 1968; the Building of the Berlin Wall & the Fiasco of The Bay of Pigs, in 1961; the Cuban Missile Crisis, in 1962; all the way down to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989. And, it showed the Double Agents: Philby, Burgess & MaClean. True, it showed the Flaws in our Foreign Policy; but, it also showed the Dedication ... Read More
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I Enjoyed This Mini-Series, Even Though It Was A Bit Slow To Start, The Acting Was Superb By The Entire Cast, I Recommend It To All Amazonian's
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Can't compare it to the book, nor do I want to. I am rating this purely on entertainment value as a movie. This is a suspenseful, riveting, and highly entertaining spy flick. This is not your average 90 minute run and gun shoot 'em up movie. It is journey into cold war espionage that is definitely worth watching.
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The Company is an epic mini-series, and if that sounds like an oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp, or military intelligence, then that is a fitting tribute to its subject: The Central Intelligence Agency. The Company is about the CIA and it covers a span of 40 years -- focusing mainly on the Cold War, and three men who meet on a rowing team while attending Yale: Jack McCauliffe (Chris O'Donnell) and Leo Kritzky (Alessandro Nivola) go to work for the CIA, while Yevgeny Tsipin (Rory Cochrane) is recruited ... Read More
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Unless memory fails, I would have to say this is the most entertaining spy film I have ever seen (of the serious and real sort). Take note,... it is of an epic scope. It is long and loaded with details, and could semi-loose you, so pay close attention. If you do, the pay-off is: you'll be deeply drawn in and you won't want it to end. The performances are outstanding, the perspective is balanced, and the filming is gorgeous. The spy "game" is understated, yet so entertaining, they really pulled it ... Read More
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