Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 12/08/1998
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French
Sound: 5.1
Run Time: 124 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: DreamWorks
The first motion picture produced by
DreamWorks SKG,
The Peacemaker (1997) was a spy thriller that married the exotic locations and derring-do of
James Bond with the high-tech obsession and post-Cold War politics of
Tom Clancy. Greedy Russian military officers crash two trains into each other, the warheads aboard one causing a nuclear blast. The accident is a cover for the theft of some of the weapons for sale to terrorists and rogue governments. In the U.S., intelligence officer Lt. Col. Tom Devoe (
George Clooney), isn't fooled. Neither is Dr. Julia Kelly (
Nicole Kidman), the acting head of a White House task force on nuclear smuggling. Devoe and Kelly team up to find the nukes, and they are able to stop the transfer of the weapons in a raid at the Iranian border, but one warhead is missing. It's in the hands of Dusan Gavrich (
Marcel Iures), a grief-stricken terrorist planning to call the world's attention to the war in the former Soviet Union with a nuclear explosion in Manhattan. Although fictional,
The Peacemaker was based on the magazine article "One Point Safe" by
Andrew Cockburn and
Leslie Cockburn, a factual investigative news report about nuclear weapons smuggling in Russia.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
;)
