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The Good Shepherd is a 2006 American crime, drama, and action film directed by Robert De Niro and written by Eric Roth. The production involves Morgan Creek Entertainment, TriBeCa Productions, and American Zoetrope, with distribution by Universal Pictures and Netflix. The cast includes Laila Robins, Martina Gedeck, Josh Pence, and Keir Dullea. The narrative is set in Connecticut and features characters such as James Jesus Angleton, Richard M. Bissell, Jr., William J. Donovan, and Allen W. Dulles.
The film has a runtime of 167 minutes and was released on December 11, 2006. It was produced with a budget of 85000000 and generated revenue of 100266865. The original languages are English and German. Technical credits include cinematography by Robert Richardson, editing by Tariq Anwar, music by Bruce Fowler, and costume design by Ann Roth. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Production Design, with Jeannine Oppewall serving as production designer.
Critical reception includes review scores of 6.2/10, 56%, and 61/100, with a TMDb vote average of 6.352 and an IMDb rating of 6.7. The story explores themes related to the Central Intelligence Agency, husband-wife relationships, and locations in Berlin, Germany, London, and England. The work is also assessed under the Bechdel test.
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6.4Edward 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.
Cast
- Matt Damon as Edward Bell Wilson
- Angelina Jolie as Margaret Ann Russell
- Robert De Niro as Bill Sullivan
- Alec Baldwin as Sam Murach
- William Hurt as Philip Allen
- Joe Pesci as Joseph Palmi
Themes
- berlin, germany
- london, england
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- husband wife relationship
- cuba
- wife
- spy
- cold war
- return
- mentor
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Robert De Niro
- Written by
- Eric Roth
- Produced by
- James G. Robinson Jane Rosenthal Robert De Niro
- Starring
- Matt Damon Angelina Jolie Alec Baldwin Joe Pesci Tammy Blanchard Billy Crudup Keir Dullea Martina Gedeck William Hurt Timothy Hutton Lee Pace Eddie Redmayne John Sessions Oleg Stefan John Turturro Robert De Niro
- Cinematography
- Robert Richardson
- Edited by
- Tariq Anwar
- Music by
- Bruce Fowler Marcelo Zarvos
- Production companies
- Morgan Creek Productions TriBeCa Productions American Zoetrope
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures (North America and select international territories), Morgan Creek International (International)
- Release date
- December 22, 2006 ( 2006-12-22 )
- Running time
- 167 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $80 million
- Box office
- $100.3 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- German
- Director
- Robert De Niro
- Screenwriter
- Eric Roth
- Cast member
- Oleg Stefan
- Composer
- Bruce Fowler
- Producer
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Production company
- American Zoetrope
- Cinematographer
- Robert Richardson
- Narrative location
- Connecticut
- Duration
- 167
- FilmAffinity ID
- 911702
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.thegoodshepherdmovie.com
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- publication date
- 2007-02-15
- film editor
- Tariq Anwar
- title
- The Good Shepherd
- costume designer
- Ann Roth
- distributed by
- Netflix
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Production Design
- production designer
- Jeannine Oppewall
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 61/100
- characters
- Yuri Nosenko
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Encyclopedic overview
The Good Shepherd is a 2006 American spy film produced and directed by Robert De Niro, and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, and De Niro, supported by an extensive ensemble cast. The film follows Edward Wilson, a fictional counterintelligence officer, from 1939 to 1961 as the CIA develops and grows around him.
Wilson (played by Damon), a senior CIA officer, discovers a mole in his department following the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. The film delves into Wilson's complex life, starting from his college years at Yale in 1939, his initiation into the Skull and Bones fraternity, and his recruitment into intelligence work (during World War II). His personal life is marked by a strained marriage to Margaret "Clover" Russell (played by Jolie), and by a series of affairs, that underscore the sacrifices, and moral compromises, invited by espionage work. The narrative unfolds through a mix of sequential events and flashbacks, exploring the origins of the CIA, the Wilson character's involvement in key historical events, and the personal tolls typical in careers dedicated to secret intelligence.
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