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The Falcon & The Snowman

The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Christopher Boyce (Hutton) and Daulton Lee (Penn) were boyhood friends. As we meet them in their early twenties, Boyce has just quit the seminary, much to his father’s disappointment and has just taken a job at TRW. He is soon promoted to dealing with the company’s top-secret defense files, where he finds out about the CIA’s tampering with elections overseas. Lee is a runaway paroled heroin addict, kept on the run between the US and Mexico by the law and his narcotics deals.

Boyce is driven by ideological disillusionment. Lee by greed and the need for excitment-together they enter the dangerous, deadly game of selling national secrets to the Russians. With each operation, the stakes get higher the risks loom larger. Until the Falcon and the Snowman find that the game has no winners.

Rated R

Good Used Condition

Director: John Schlesinger
Writers: Robert Lindsey (book), Steven Zaillian
Stars:Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn and Pat Hingle