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No Way Out

R
Movie
1987
1h 54m
English
Thriller
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
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No Way Out (1987) on IMDb
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Kevin Costner
Lt. Cmdr. Tom Farrell
Gene Hackman
Defense Secretary David Brice
Sean Young
Susan Atwell
Will Patton
Scott Pritchard
Howard Duff
Senator William 'Billy' Duvall
George Dzundza
Sam Hesselman
Jason Bernard
Major Donovan
Iman
Nina Beka
Fred Thompson
CIA Director Marshall
Leon Russom
Kevin O'Brien
Dennis Burkley
Boat Renter
Chris D
Assassin
Nicholas Worth
Cup Breaker
Leo Geter
Ensign Fox
John DAquino
Lt. John Chadway
Peter Bell
Seaman Dufor
David Paymer
Technician
Charles Walker
Technician
June Chandler
Mrs. Brice
Brad Pitt
Party Guest
David Armstrong
Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Directed By: Roger Donaldson
Written By: Robert Garland (Screenplay), Kenneth Fearing (Novel)

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Spiritualized Kaos says...
one year ago
Double and triple spy plots.
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The_Argentinian says...
3 months ago
I enjoyed this thriller very much. It takes 45 minutes for the proper plot to start, which by modern standards is an eternity. And some moments feel contrived (government officials wanting to murder people in broad daylight; a building search...) but I don't mind it in the context the time it was made.
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AdamMorgan says...
2 years ago
I can't remember the last time that a single movie got so many stellar and terrible reviews. In a sense I get it - while this movie was probably flawed in several ways (and much of it didn't age well because the technology changed so fast) there are a few things to really like about it. I'll be honest - I thought that I had the movie figured out. And for much of it I did.... just not all of it. I was really mad at myself later on, and I loved that feeling of being punched in the face by a movie. I did see a quote about this movie that is probably true (and I am paraphrasing here): it is better than it has to be but probably not as good as it ought to be. After the movie ended I realized that I had enjoyed it but thought that it could have been a classic. Some of the stuff in the latter third of the movie (before the final scene) was just plain goofy. follow me at https://IHATEBadMovies.com or facebook IHATEBadMovies
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KurtMoney says...
8 years ago
This movie was a pretty taut thriller. Not 100% if "taut" applies here but assume so because it's only used to describe good thrillers. This took the usual turns until the last 5 minutes at which point I exclaimed WHAT to myself, alone on a futon, questioning my life at that moment as well as what just happened on screen. A quick read of its Wiki page cleared up the out of nowhere ending to the movie but failed to answer the other question. I'll keep looking.
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John Chard
6 years ago
Counting down the hours for some self investigation.

No Way Out is directed by Roger Donaldson and adapted to screenplay by Robert Garland from the novel "The Big Clock" written by Kenneth Fearing. It stars Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, George Dzundza and Howard Duff. Musi More
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Wuchak
6 years ago
Life in DC and The Pentagon during the mid-80s

RELEASED IN 1987 and directed by Roger Donaldson, "No Way Out” is a political drama/thriller starring Keven Costner as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy who falls in love with a woman of dubious morality (Sean Young) and is thrust into a cover-up/ More
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