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The Good Shepherd (2006)

R 12/11/2006 Drama, Thriller, History 2h 47m
63%
User
Score
6.7/10
56%
61/100

Edward Wilson believed in America, and he would sacrifice everything he loved to protect it.

Overview

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

Robert De Niro

Director

Eric Roth

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Matt Damon

Matt Damon

Edward Bell Wilson

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie

Margaret Ann Russell

Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin

Sam Murach

Tammy Blanchard

Tammy Blanchard

Laura

Billy Crudup

Billy Crudup

Arch Cummings

Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro

Bill Sullivan

Keir Dullea

Keir Dullea

Senator John Russell, Sr.

Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon

Dr. Fredericks

Martina Gedeck

Martina Gedeck

Hanna Schiller

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Media

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on May 19, 2024

So rather than spend a fortune on special disguises, plastic surgery and prosthetics, the secret of being a successful counter-intelligence agent is loads of Bryclream, a pair of thick-set spectacles and a fawn, knee-length, mac. That's what puts the c into overt! That theory sort works for Matt Damon here with this lacklustre drama set around the time in world history when the American government realised they needed to gather intelligence about whom their potential 20th century foes might be. He is "Edward Wilson", who after being sworn into some top secret masonic style of society at school finds himself learning the arts of espionage in a wartorn London, then to Berlin, the back to Uncle Sam where his accrued skills leave him well placed to root out Nazi sympathisers and Soviet agents ...

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