The Falcon and the Snowman
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Promotional movie poster for the film
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| Directed by | John Schlesinger |
| Produced by |
Gabriel Katzka John Schlesinger |
| Screenplay by | Steven Zaillian |
| Based on |
The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey |
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| Music by |
Lyle Mays Pat Metheny |
| Cinematography | Allen Daviau |
| Edited by | Richard Marden |
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| Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
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131 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7 million |
| Box office | $17 million |
The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 American spy drama film directed by John Schlesinger. It is loosely based on a true story about two young American men, Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) and Andrew Daulton Lee (Sean Penn), who sold U.S. security secrets to the Soviet Union. The film is based on the 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey, and features the song "This Is Not America", written and performed by David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group.
The Falcon and the Snowman is based on the real life story of two men from wealthy Californian families (former altar boy and Catholic seminary student Christopher Boyce and drug dealer Andrew Daulton Lee), who sold classified government information to the Soviet Union during the mid-1970s.
Boyce, an expert in the sport of falconry and son of an FBI office employee, gets a job at a civilian defense contractor (TRW, called "RTX" in the movie) working in the so-called "Black Vault," a secure communication facility through which flows information on some of the most classified U.S. operations in the world. Boyce becomes disillusioned with the U.S. government through his new position, especially after reading a misrouted communiqué dealing with the CIA's plan to depose the Prime Minister of Australia. Frustrated by this duplicity, Boyce decides to repay his government by passing classified secrets to the Soviets.
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