Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gerard Depardieu

London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian goverment, an agent provacateur of sor...( read more  read more... )ts, while simultaneously providing information to the London police, specifically Chief Inspector Heat. When the new Russian ambassador demands he prove his worth or lose his salary, Verloc sets off a tragic chain of events that involves his pretty young wife Winnie, her retarded brother Stevie, and a figure called the Professor, whose fascination with explosives and destruction makes him the person to call on when Verloc needs a bomb.

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R, 95 min.

Directed by: Christopher Hampton

Release Date: November 8, 1996

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DVD Release Date: June 7, 2005

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  • August 1, 2008
    Let's review: Christian Bale plays a retard who gets blown up by a bomb, Bob Hoskins gets knifed in the chest, Eddie Izzard has the worst Russian accent of all time, Robin Williams is uncredited and plays a terrorist, and Patricia Arquette plays a brittish woman making her terrib...( read more)le teeth acceptable. What's the point of all this? Nobody knows. A bunch of stuff happens and then the movie ends, but it wasn't un-enjoyable.
  • July 8, 2008
    Maintains interest with story and great cast.
  • August 2, 2008
    i saw half of it .. boring ..
  • November 9, 2007
    this is robin Williams best roll ever
  • July 1, 2007
    Incredible cast, and incredibly disjointed story. They should have chucked the script and kept with Robin William's mad bomber character...
  • April 29, 2007
    I really want to see this.

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