| Release Date: | Mar 1990 |
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| Genres: | Action / Adventure / Thriller |
| Awards: | Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations |
| Runtime: | 134 min |
| Cast: | Sean Connery (Captain Marko Ramius), Alec Baldwin (Jack Ryan), Scott Glenn (Commander Bart Mancuso) Sam Neill (Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin) James Earl Jones (Admiral James Greer) Joss Ackland (Ambassador Andrei Lysenko) Richard Jordan (Dr. Jeffrey Pelt) Peter Firth (Political Officer Ivan Yurevich Putin...) Tim Curry (Dr. Petrov) Courtney B. Vance (Sonarman 2nd Class Ronald Jones) Stellan Skarsgård (Captain Tupolev) Jeffrey Jones (Oliver Wendell 'Skip' Tyler) Timothy Carhart (Bill Steiner) Larry Ferguson (Chief of the Boat Watson - USS Dallas) Fred Dalton Thompson (Rear Admiral Joshua Painter - USS...) |
Soviets create a new nuclear submarine that runs silent due to a revolutionary propulsion system. Russian sub captain defects, goal of taking it to the U.S.A. to prevent the Russians from using the sub to wreak nuclear (missile) war against the U.S. Lots of plot turns and twists in this high-tech thriller.