MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mimi Leder
Genres: Action
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The first motion picture produced by DreamWorks SKG, The Peacemaker (1997) was a spy thriller that married the exotic locations and derring-do of James_Bond with the high-tech obsession and post-Cold War politics of Tom_Clancy. Greedy Russian military officers crash two trains into each other, the warheads aboard one causing a nuclear blast. The accident is a cover for the theft of some of the weapons for sale to terrorists and rogue governments. In the U.S., intelligence officer Lt. Col. Tom Devoe (George_Clooney), isn't fooled. Neither is Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole_Kidman), the acting head of a White House task force on nuclear smuggling. Devoe and Kelly team up to find the nukes, and they are able to stop the transfer of the weapons in a raid at the Iranian border, but one warhead is missing. It's in the hands of Dusan Gavrich (Marcel_Iures), a grief-stricken terrorist planning to call the world's attention to the war in the former Soviet Union with a nuclear explosion in Manhattan. Although fictional, The Peacemaker was based on the magazine article "One Point Safe" by Andrew_Cockburn and Leslie_Cockburn, a factual investigative news report about nuclear weapons smuggling in Russia. Karl Williams, Rovi

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