Dennis Franz, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy

Gene Hackman is a career officer assigned a routine mission well beneath him: deliver a prisoner (Tommy Lee Jones) from Europe to the United States. However, the simple assignment becomes a daring cat...( read more  read more... )-and-mouse game played as the last flames of the Cold War are flickering. This is the first of three films that teamed Jones with director Andrew Davis. In 1989 Jones was a wild card: an actor respected but only popping up in grade B fare. After Davis's Under Siege and The Fugitive, Jones was America's favorite gruff character actor, with an Oscar on his mantel. With a weaker script, Davis still creates the same kind of magic here. Hackman is superb as the officer, an action role similar to others that the nearly 60-year-old unexpectedly excelled at (Bat 21, Narrow Margin) during this period. Tight, tense, and with no letup in the third act, The Package is a good gem for a Saturday night flick. --Doug Thomas

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R, 108 min.

Directed by: Andrew Davis

Release Date: August 25, 1989

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DVD Release Date: May 15, 2001

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  • June 3, 2009
    A reasonably well made and suspenseful intelligence community thriller that anyone who enjoyed The Fourth Protocol would find to their liking.
  • May 24, 2009
    I just watched this movie again. Its still pretty cool. I can't really say why, other than there's some great acting from Hackman & Tommy Lee Jones.
    Parts of it seem kinda' random, even now. But its still a classic cole war thriller.
  • April 12, 2009
    Gene Hackman at his best.Good plot.
  • September 9, 2008
    very good very intense espionage flick.
  • July 10, 2008
    this is a really good movie!
  • February 21, 2008
    Great older movie to watch, lots of action!
  • December 31, 2007
    hackman and tommy lee made this film great
  • November 1, 2007
    a very action packed thriller with gene hackman tommy lee jones and john heard all at their prime and making this somewhat over the top mystery worthy of our attention. look for a cameo from pam grier before jackie brown fame

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