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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792854029
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792854020
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 03, 2002
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 16645
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 06, 1991
Editorial Review:
Description:
The Cold War may be over, but things are about to heat up again! Oscar® winner* Gene Hackman (Enemy of the State) teams up with Mikhail Baryshnikov (White Nights) in this fast paced, thrill-a-minute ride that hurtles through Europe, culminating in a death-defying confrontation atop the Eiffel Tower! When an ex-CIA agent (Hackman) is called out of retirement to escort a Soviet spy (Baryshnikov) to Berlin for a prisoner trade with the Russians, it seems like business as usual. But when the former adversaries realize they've been double-crossed by their own governments, they must work together to uncover and destroy the double operatives within both the CIA and the KGB to win this intricate and deadly spy game. *1992: Supporting Actor, Unforgiven; 1971: Actor, The French Connection
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Business as usual
Here's a game for really long car journeys - see how many alternative titles you can remember for this one. At one time or another known as Dinosaurs, Patriots, False Passports and Russian Roulette - and there are a lot more where they came from - with Elliott Gould and Marsha Mason announced in supporting roles (neither is anywhere to be seen in the finished film), Company Business appears to have been re-edited, reshot and retitled more times than anything this side of Heaven's Gate before finally ... Read More
Rating:  - An old-school "cold war" spy-classics with humour and style!
I find this film amazing for some reasons. First of all these are the characters played by Hackman and Baryshnikov. A cynical retired CIA-agent and an arrogant KGB-agent. Rather trite stereotypes. But they are played as perfect and naturally as it is possible! I think, both actors were born to play this couple. Also very good are the performers of minor characters like the Arabian weapons dealer or the CIA-people. Second reason are the dialogues between the main characters. The third thing that makes ... Read More
Rating: - Another Chase Film
This film starts with a simple deal. An imprisoned Soviet spy and $2,000,000 will be exchanged for a captured American. The deal will be done in an underground station in Berlin. But something is wrong, and the deal is canceled before the swap is done. The opposition open fire, but they escape from them, and the people Sam works for. Now the plot has them on the run with the Two Million in marked money. They escape from the people who pursue them. Until they are found.
The CIA wants to turn ... Read More
Rating:  - Taking "Company Business" way too seriously!
I like this movie. I like Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikof, and they play off each other very well. There are very serious plot 'issues', and parts of it make no sense at all. However, I am so tired of critics (Both 'self styled' and professional) turning movies into "statements" about the 'human condition', or defining them as 'searing indictments of the times we live in' that I pay as much attention to their reviews as any reader should pay to this one! This is a movie. It's fun. It's fiction. It's ... Read More
Rating: - Baryshnikov and Hackman save the day
I watched this despite bad reviews because I really wanted to see Baryshnikov in a feature film like this. And he does a great job. I'm wondering why Hollywood never offered him more roles like this over the years, since he's really quite good at it. Despite the chemistry of the actors, the movie is just very hokey and pointless. They try to make the story interesting by alluding to the extent of corruption within the U.S. government, but I think that's all common knowledge these days and not really ... Read More
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