Clear and Present Danger

1994
PG-13
2h 21m

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6.9/10

111K

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Conspiracy Thriller Political Thriller Spy Action Crime Drama Thriller

CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

111K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,733

1,082

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Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 3 wins & 11 nominations total

Trivia
The drug lord mansion destroyed by the missile was a real brick-and-mortar residence in Mexico purchased by the filmmakers from a divorcée who had unpleasant memories of the place. The filmmakers bought the mansion and destroyed it. The divorcée kept the land and presumably built a new house after clearing out the rubble.

Goofs
In the scene where Jack has access to Ritter's computer, Jack is seen viewing and printing files. Then Ritter discovers Jack's diversionary phone call, so Ritter begins to delete the same files from the disk, and eventually clears the screen of the file Jack was accessing. Disk operating systems of all kinds do not allow an open file, the file Jack was printing, to be deleted; thus, Jack should have been able to keep the file open as long as he wanted to and print or copy to another disk to use as evidence against Ritter.

Quotes
[Jack needs a helicopter]
Jack Ryan: I'm here to rent the Huey.
Helicopter owner: We don't rent it anymore, but it is for sale.
Jack Ryan: How much?
Helicopter owner: Two million dollars.
Jack Ryan: Uh, my pilot and I will have to take it for a test drive.
Helicopter owner: Of course, you just have to leave a deposit.
Jack Ryan: How much is that?
Helicopter owner: Two million dollars.
Jack Ryan: Umm...
[Shows a CIA business card]
Jack Ryan: Would you take a company check?

Connections
Edited into The Pandora Project (1998)

Soundtracks
Happy Birthday To You
Written by Mildred J. Hill and Patty S. Hill

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Featured review

7/10

Condensed Clancy

The makers of this movie are to be congratulated for turning a Tom Clancy doorstop into a tense, tightly woven international thriller with a top notch cast and believeable plot. Where the previous two Jack Ryan movies depended on stunts and quite unbelieveable plot twists this film concentrates on a grubby little military/political incident (more the domain of intelligence men) and the men of honour and integrity (Ford and an under used Dafoe) trapped in the middle of it.

I also like this movie for its subtle dig at the American establishment and how it assumes it can coerce the weak into doing its bidding.

The Clark character in Clancy's fiction is an interesting one and deserves to be further developed. Casting Willem Dafoe in the part was actually a stroke of genius, and I could easily imagine his character in Platoon doing this kind of work if he had survived Vietnam. The fact that Dafoe is one of THE most underrated actors in Hollywood also means I like this.