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The Assignment(Movie, 1997)

1h 59min | Genres: Thriller, Action, Crime
The AssignmentRating: 3.2/5 (with 5757 votes)
The Assignment is a 1997 spy action thriller film directed by Christian Duguay and starring Aidan Quinn (in two roles), with Donald Sutherland and Ben Kingsley. The film, written by Dan Gordon and Sabi H. Shabtai, is set mostly in the late 1980s and deals with a CIA plan to use Quinn's character to masquerade as the Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal. ()
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About The Assignment

Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.

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The Assignment (1997)(Trailer, 2:29)

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Additional Information

Production country: Canada
Plays in: France
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR)
Translated into 20 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Ukrainian (UK)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/28/1997
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Le mandat"
"Jackal"

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