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The Hunt for Red October

PG-13
Movie
1990
2h 15m
English
Action, Adventure, Thriller
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!
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Sean Connery
Captain Marko Ramius
Alec Baldwin
Jack Ryan
Scott Glenn
Bart Mancuso
Sam Neill
Captain Vasily Borodin
James Earl Jones
Admiral James Greer
Joss Ackland
Andrei Lysenko
Richard Jordan
Jeffrey Pelt
Peter Firth
Ivan Putin
Tim Curry
Dr. Yevgeniy Petrov
Courtney B Vance
Ronald Jones
Stellan Skarsgrd
Captain Viktor Tupolev
Jeffrey Jones
Skip Tyler
Timothy Carhart
Bill Steiner
Larry Ferguson
Chief of the Boat
Fred Thompson
Admiral Painter
Daniel Davis
Captain Davenport
Ned Vaughn
Seaman Beaumont
Anthony Peck
Thompson
Mark Draxton
Seaman - USS Dallas
Tom Fisher
Seaman - USS Dallas
Pete Antico
Seaman - USS Dallas
Ronald Guttman
Lieutenant Melekhin
Michael George Benko
Ivan - Red October
Anatoli Davydov
Officer #1 - Red October
Directed By: John McTiernan
Written By: Tom Clancy (Novel), Larry Ferguson (Screenplay), + 1 more

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FinFan says...
7 years ago
After watching this back then I bought the book and became and instant Clancy fan. Althought the movies in general can´t reach up to the books because those are too complex there are some really good ones. Red October definately belongs into that category. It´s a classic cold war thriller with lots of suspension. Highly entertaining with great actors. Joh McTiernan did a great job of mixing the elements together. But as mentioned I recommend checking out Clancys books if you like this kind of storys. Especially the early ones of which a lot of the movies are based on are great.
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ketu says...
10 years ago
The movie is pretty old, I know. But I still love it to watch on a Sunday when you are wasted because Saturday night was a hard party night. :D
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tyrannic_puppy says...
3 years ago
Hell of a good movie that doesn't try to paint one side or the other as the 'bad guy', and as such avoids the usual politics of such premises and pulls off some fairly tense stand-offs at several key moments. But my absolute favourite part, only noticed on this most recent rewatch is that Stanley is credited as playing himself. A cute little tidbit that I missed so many times watching as a younger man.
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nmahoney416 says...
6 years ago
I thought this was going to be a full blown spy action movie. The slow burn suspenseful movie was a surprise. The story is pretty interesting and the acting is good for the most part. It was a little too long and boring at parts. The special effects are a little dated. Still worth a watch.
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drqshadow
7/10  4 years ago
A fine reminder that not all Cold War-era period pieces are unabashed feasts of propaganda. _Red October_ certainly paints the Russians in a very secretive light, but such treatment isn't unfair and the Americans on the other side of the ocean are hardly championed as the infallible superheroes More
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Wuchak
9 months ago
**_Submarine strategies with Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin and Scott Glenn_**

Just before Gorbachev’s rise to power in the USSR, a notable naval commander (Connery) takes a technologically advanced submarine on its maiden voyage to conduct missile drills off of America's east coast. Something happ More
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