The Good Shepherd: All our dirty secrets start here.
Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and Robert De Niro star in this powerful thriller about the birth of the CIA. Edward Wilson (Damon) believes in America, and will sacrifice everything he loves to protect it. But as one of the covert founders of the CIA, Edward's youthful idealism is slowly eroded by his growing suspicion of the people around him. Everybody has secrets... but will Edward's destroy him?
With an all-star cast including Alec Baldwin, Billy Crudup, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton and John Turturro, it's the gripping story David Ansen of Newsweek hails as "spellbinding."
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The Good Shepherd Cast
Angelina Jolie - Clover/Margaret Russell
Alec Baldwin - Sam Murach
Tammy Blanchard - Laura
Billy Crudup - Arch Cummings
Robert De Niro - Bill Sullivan
Keir Dullea - Senator John Russell Sr.
Michael Gambon - Dr. Fredericks
Martina Gedeck - Hanna Schiller
William Hurt - Philip Allen
Timothy Hutton - Thomas Wilson
Mark Ivanir - Valentin Mironov #2
Gabriel Macht - John Russell Jr.
Lee Pace - Richard Hayes
Joe Pesci - Joseph Palmi
Eddie Redmayne - Edward Wilson Jr.
John Sessions - Valentin Mironov #1/Yuri Modin
Oleg Stefan - Ulysses/Stas Siyanko
John Turturro - Ray Brocco
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"The Good Shepherd" Editorial Review
by Jae-Ha Kim (Amazon.com)
The Good Shepherd
(Widescreen Edition)
A complicated movie about the Central Intelligence Agency and its agents, The Good Shepherd isn't your typical spy movie. Though it stars Matt Damon (The Bourne Identity films) and Angelina Jolie (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Lara Croft franchise)--actors with considerable experience in the action-espionage genre--The Good Shepherd requires that they play more subdued and (much less interesting) characters here.
The movie focuses on the career or Edward Wilson (Damon), a privileged Yale graduate who goes on to help found the CIA. He is a quiet, serious, and guarded man, even in the most intimate moments with his civilian wife (Jolie, in a role that wastes her talent). Set against a backdrop of real-life events such as the Bay of Pigs, The Good Shepherd is meticulous in creating a realistic timeframe.
The film gets a jolt of excitement when Robert DeNiro (in his first directing role since 1993's A Bronx Tale) peppers the screen with appearances by Joe Pesci, Alec Baldwin, and William Hurt. But those moments are too infrequent. At 157 minutes long, the film is crammed with many factual details, but the characters are shortchanged when it comes to development. Viewers have to wonder why anyone, much less someone like Wilson who has everything going for him, would devote his life to a thankless job that brings so little happiness to himself and his family.
The Good Shepherd is an ambitious but flawed film. The actors do a formidable job with a well-intentioned but meandering script. However, we meet so many characters and learn so little about each that it's difficult to drum up much empathy for any of them.
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