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Karen West Movies

1985  
R  
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John Schlesinger directed this fact-based drama - adapted from Robert Lindsay's bestseller of the same title -- about two Californians, friends since boyhood, who are caught selling government secrets to the Soviet Union. Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) is an all-American boy, studying for the priesthood in a seminary. But Boyce decides to drop out of school, and with the help of his father (Pat Hingle), a FBI agent, he gets a job working for the CIA in a message-routing center. While reading the messages, Boyce is shocked to learn that the CIA is involved in fixing Australian elections. Watching the Watergate hearings on television, he feels an ever-mounting sense of outrage at the arrogance of the U.S. government and decides to do something about it. Deciding to supply the CIA messages to the Russians, he enlists his childhood friend Daulton Lee (Sean Penn) to help him. Lee is to deliver the CIA secrets to a Russian operative (David Suchet) at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. But Lee is an unreliable drug dealer, and his sloppy spy trail leads the two old friends into more trouble than they bargained for. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

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Starring:
Timothy HuttonSean Penn, (more)
 
1982  
 
This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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Starring:
Dave AtkinsJacki Weaver, (more)
 
1982  
 
A bunch of teenaged girls go to a swinging resort town. They take their clothes off and jiggle around for a while for the benefit of the heavy breathers in the front row. Then the girls are victimized by the local psychos and sex perverts -- in other words, by just about everyone in town. One of the girls manages to escape and violently turn the tables. Kerry Mack, Kim Trengove, and Marie O'Laughlin head the no-star cast. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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