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The Good Shepherd

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6.3/10 • 1.2K

2006-12-112h 47m

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Edward Wilson believed in America, and he would sacrifice everything he loved to protect it.

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

Directors
Robert De Niro
Writters
Eric Roth
Editors
Eric Roth, Tariq Anwar

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  1. Matt Damon

    Matt Damon

    Edward Bell Wilson

  2. Angelina Jolie

    Angelina Jolie

    Margaret Ann Russell

  3. Robert De Niro

    Robert De Niro

    Bill Sullivan

  4. Alec Baldwin

    Alec Baldwin

    Sam Murach

  5. William Hurt

    William Hurt

    Philip Allen

  6. Joe Pesci

    Joe Pesci

    Joseph Palmi

  7. John Turturro

    John Turturro

    Raymond Brocco

  8. Billy Crudup

    Billy Crudup

    Archibald Cummings

  9. Tammy Blanchard

    Tammy Blanchard

    Laura

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CinemaSerf

May 19, 2024

6/10

So rather than spend a fortune on special disguises, plastic surgery and prosthetics, the secret of being a successful counter-intelligence agent is loads of Bryclream, a pair of thick-set spectacles and a fawn, knee-length, mac. That's what puts the c into overt! That theory sort works for Matt Damon here with this lacklustre drama set around the time in world history when the American government realised they needed to gather intelligence about whom their potential 20th century foes might be. He is "Edward Wilson", who after being sworn into some top secret masonic style of society at school finds himself learning the arts of espionage in a wartorn London, then to Berlin, the back to Uncle Sam where his accrued skills leave him well placed to root out Nazi sympathisers and Soviet agents and defectors. Initially he is full of the joys of spring, his task a patriotic duty. Increasingly, though, as his hastily arranged marriage to "Margaret" (the sparingly used Angelina Jolie) starts to suffer, cynicism creeps in and what semblance of decency he had begins to become subsumed into a determination to get results - regardless of the methods frequently employed by his sidekick "Ray" (John Turturro). Robert De Niro clearly has pulling power with his directorial promise, but most of the supporting cast add little to this muddling drama that trips over it's own cloak way too often looking for the dagger. Quite where Billy Crudup's accent came from is anyone's guess and the plodding nature of this rather wearisome, if stylishly filmed, drama makes it quite a slog to sit through. It's all just a bit too self-indulgent and presents us with a rather ungracious and arrogant side to an American superiority complex that I found a bit dull.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$85,000,000.00
Revenue
$100,266,865.00
Keywords
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