The Good Shepherd 2006

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NETFLIX Rating : 3.3

IMDB Rating : 6.7

FD Smart Rating : 6.7

Synopsis : Upstanding Yale student Edward Wilson is recruited to work for the fledgling CIA during World War II, but the job soon begins to erode his ideals.

Regions Available ( 7 ) :
India , Israel , Singapore , Thailand , Belgium , Netherlands , South Korea

Directors:

Robert De Niro

Actors:

Matt Damon , Angelina Jolie , Alec Baldwin

Languages:

English [Original] , French

Subtitles:

Hindi , English , Hebrew , Mandarin , French , Thai , Dutch , Korean

Genres:

Drama, History, Thriller

Release Date:

2006

Run Time:

2h47m

Maturity Rating:

Suitable for age 12 or older.

Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recruitment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak.