American Zoetrope
Morgan Creek Entertainment
Tribeca Productions
Universal Pictures
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The Good Shepherd
Edward Wilson believed in America, and he would sacrifice everything he loved to protect it.
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.
- Original title
- The Good Shepherd
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $85,000,000
- Revenue
- $100,266,865
CinemaSerf
May 19, 2024 · via TMDB
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 and defectors. Initially he is full of the joys of spring, his task a patriotic duty. Increasingly, though, as his hastily arranged marriage to "Margaret" (the sparingly used Angelina Jolie) starts to suffer, cynicism creeps in and what semblance of decency he had begins to become subsumed into a determination to get results - regardless of the methods frequently employed by his sidekick "Ray" (John Turturro). Robert De Niro clearly has pulling power with his directorial promise, but most of the supporting cast add little to this muddling drama that trips over it's own cloak way too often looking for the dagger. Quite where Billy Crudup's accent came from is anyone's guess and the plodding nature of this rather wearisome, if stylishly filmed, drama makes it quite a slog to sit through. It's all just a bit too self-indulgent and presents us with a rather ungracious and arrogant side to an American superiority complex that I found a bit dull.
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Matt Damon
Edward Bell Wilson
Angelina Jolie
Margaret Ann Russell
Robert De Niro
Bill Sullivan
Alec Baldwin
Sam Murach
William Hurt
Philip Allen
Joe Pesci
Joseph Palmi
John Turturro
Raymond Brocco
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Keir Dullea
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Martina Gedeck
Hanna Schiller
Gabriel Macht
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Lee Pace
Richard Hayes
Eddie Redmayne
Edward Wilson Jr.
Mark Ivanir
Valentin Mironov #2
Yelena Shmulenson
Dollar Woman
Anne-Marie Cusson
Philip Allen's Secretary
David Crommett
Spanish Translator
Michael Arden
Pinafore Actor
John Hill
Pinafore Actor
Will Reynolds
Pinafore Actor
Michael Seelbach
Pinafore Actor
Gregory Marcel
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Lars Gerhard
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Tessa Kim
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Lee Bryant
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Laila Robins
Toddy Allen
Jeff Skowron
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Josh Casaubon
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Christopher Evan Welch
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Trace Taylor
Cryptographer
Amanda Barron
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James Faulkner
Lord Cooper
Robert Ian Mackenzie
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Dieter Riesle
Herr Franck
Tommy Nelson
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Greg Plitt
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Jonathan Dokuchitz
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Susan Haskell
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Neal Huff
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Jason Butler Harner
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Amy Wright
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Matthew Humphreys
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Karron Graves
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Reathel Bean
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Wally Dunn
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Roger Rathburn
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Josh Pence
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Dave Payton
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Nyasha Hatendi
Thomas Lumumba (uncredited)
Diana Shneider
Irina Russell (uncredited)
Jeannine Oppewall
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Russell Bobbitt
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Robert Richardson
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Ann Roth
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John Cenatiempo
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Aaron Vexler
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Jill Brown
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John Cenatiempo
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Francis Ford Coppola
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James G. Robinson
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Jane Rosenthal
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Robert De Niro
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Arvo Pärt
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Eric Roth
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