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Drama/Action/Thriller

Country: United States

Release Date: 2006

Runtime: 139 min

Cast: Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie, Joe Pesci, Eddie Redmayne, Tammy Blanchard, Alec Baldwin, Billy Crudup, Keir Dullea, Michael Gambon, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Gabriel Macht, Lee Pace, John Turturro, Michael Arden, Tuc Watkins, Martina Gedeck, John Sessions, Mark Ivanir, Matthew Humphreys, Jason Butler Harner, James Faulkner, Liya Kebede, Lars Gerhard, Nick Poltoranin, Hristo Hristov, Neal Huff, Oleg Štefanko, Christopher Evan Welch, Aaron Michael Lacey, Cuyle Carvin, Henry Gummer, Vlad Kozlov, Amy Wright, Carl Burrows, Brandon deSpain

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In 1939, the life of young Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is profoundly changed when he joins the powerful secret society Skull & Bones at Yale University. An aspiring student, he denounces his favourite professor (Michael Gambon) for his Nazi sympathies out of sheer patriotism. This move wins him friends in the federal government, which recruits him for several covert operations. An influential military intelligence official, General Bill Sullivan (Robert De Niro), offers him a job at the CIA's Foreign Intelligence Service in London. Wilson accepts without hesitation... Wilson's career skyrockets during World War II, the Cold War, and the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. As a secret agent, he must choose throughout his life between his glamorous wife (Angelina Jolie) and loyalty to the CIA, between loyalty and betrayal...

Director Robert De Niro reveals the background to the creation of the CIA in a film inspired by true events.