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The Bourne Identity
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?
2002 · Directed by Doug Liman · 119 min · Action · Mystery · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 23 frames
Tagline
He was the perfect weapon until he became the target.
Plot
In the Mediterranean Sea, Italian fishermen rescue an American man adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. Tending to his wounds, they find he has amnesia but shows fluency in several languages. A tiny laser projector found implanted in his hip gives the number of a safe deposit box in Zurich, so he goes to investigate. While there, he discovers he is highly trained in hand-to-hand combat after incapacitating two Zurich police officers in a park.
In the deposit box he finds various currencies, passports, IDs with different names, and a handgun. The man takes everything but the gun and starts using the name on the American passport, Jason Bourne. After Bourne's departure, a bank employee contacts Operation Treadstone, a CIA black ops program. Its head, Alexander Conklin, issues alerts to police to capture Bourne and assigns three agents – codenamed Castel, Manheim, and the Professor – to kill him.
CIA deputy director Ward Abbott contacts Conklin about a failed assassination attempt against exiled African dictator Wombosi, who promises to deal with the agent who failed. Bourne evades the Swiss police by using his U.S. passport to enter the American consulate but is pursued by Marine guards.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Tony Gilroy, William Blake Herron
- Cinematography: Oliver Wood
- Edited by: Saar Klein
- Music: John Powell
- Production design: Dan Weil
- Produced by: Richard N. Gladstein, Doug Liman, Patrick Crowley
Cast
- Matt Damon as Jason Bourne
- Franka Potente as Marie Helena Kreutz
- Chris Cooper as Alexander Conklin
- Clive Owen as The Professor
- Brian Cox as Ward Abbott
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Nykwana Wombosi
- Gabriel Mann as Danny Zorn
- Julia Stiles as Nicky Parsons
- Walton Goggins as Research Tech
- Josh Hamilton as Research Tech
Production
- Country: United States of America, Germany, Czech Republic
- Language: English, French, German, Dutch, Italian
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Hypnotic, Kalima Productions, Stillking Films
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $214,034,224
- Themes: assassin, amnesia, paris, france, based on novel or book, escape, barcelona, spain, spy, secret identity, passport, mission of murder
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