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Little Nikita
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
1988 · Directed by Richard Benjamin · 98 min · Drama · Action · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
He went to bed an all-American kid and woke up the son of Russian spies.
Crew
- Screenplay: Bo Goldman, John Hill
- Cinematography: László Kovács
- Edited by: Jacqueline Cambas
- Music: Marvin Hamlisch
- Production design: Gene Callahan
- Produced by: Harry Gittes
Cast
- Sidney Poitier as Roy Parmenter
- River Phoenix as Jeff Grant
- Richard Jenkins as Richard Grant
- Caroline Kava as Elizabeth Grant
- Richard Bradford as Konstantin Karpov
- Richard Lynch as Scuba
- Loretta Devine as Verna McLaughlin
- Lucy Deakins as Barbara Kerry
- Jerry Hardin as Brewer
- Albert Fortell as Bunin
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Columbia Pictures
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Box office: $1,733,070
- Themes: spy, fbi, teenage boy, pursuit in traffic, soviet spy, adult child friendship
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