Sean Penn out here lookin like a whole ass clown with that mustache

Slower than I thought it would be, but with solid performances from Timothy Hutton (in his sexy heyday) and Sean Penn (with a terrible moustache). Was nice to see Lori Singer, too bad she didn’t really have anything to do in the movie.

I was perusing the list of what's on Criterion Channel this month, and I remembered that I was watching this on hotel HBO, during a school trip to Washington, when the Captain Midnight HBO piracy incident occurred and interrupted it.

So I actually remember the date I first saw this flick, more than a third of a century later.

Can you tell I really don't want to go to work today?

Sean Penn’s mustache is absurd and Chris Makepeace has an appearance. Don’t sprain an ankle running for the remote to find this.

May Challenge with Mitch
Prompt: Pick an actor or actress you don't like and watch something with them in the lead.

Always interesting for me when I put on a Sean Penn film I've never seen. The guy can act but other times I cringe at his overacting. The Falcon and the Snowman had both. Some great moments and one or two cringy "ok Sean, dial it back." moments. Timothy Hutton was great as the other lead and the movie was fast paced and always interesting. Definitely worth a watch!

Based on a true story which is incredible to believe this actually went on.
Hutton acts his heart out but Penn steels the show. If your a fan of Penn and haven't seen this I suggest you do as it's a great performance.
The film itself can drag but stick with it because these are events actually happened.
My GF googled their stories after and we both could not get over what happened when they were both released from jail.
A nice solid film that deserves to be noticed on Letterboxd.
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I know a thing or two about predatory behavior, and what once was a legitimate intelligence agency is now being used on weaker governments.
-Christopher Boyce

The story of Christopher Boyce happened almost 40 years before that of Edward Snowden's but they are almost identical... if Snowden had been a rich douchebag with a cocaine dealing best friend that would express his outrage about what his government was doing by selling their secrets to the Russians instead of just making them public. Except for all those differences, their basically the same story. The Russians even figure into both.

Timothy Hutton is good as Boyce (AKA: The Falcon), but he's basically playing an unlikable character while Sean Penn is almost too perfect as a sleazy cocaine/heroine dealer.

It is weird though that the movie ends with no mention of what happened in Boyce's life in 80-81.

This should be good, but it isn’t.

I don't get how this connects to the MCU at all... 🤪

This extremely well-acted political thriller focuses not on the actual politics involved, but more upon the two fascinating young leads who find themselves embroiled in a world that is slowly ensnaring them inescapably.

Captivating story, doused in 80's aesthetic and score. I can't point to everything that works, but something that stands out the most is the dialogue:

"I know a few things about predatory behavior. And what was once a legitimate intelligence gathering agency is now being used to prey on weaker governments."

"Imagine what that must feel like. You say more with a look than you realize. Whatever else you think about me, I am not blind..."

"He who dies with the most toys wins."

The real life Boyce had some fascinating moments in his life after he was sentenced for treason, I have to wonder why it was ignored for the film.

Timothy Hutton plays a young defense contractor who gets himself upset about the CIA and decides to start sending information to the Soviets via his drug-dealer friend Sean Penn. As a look at insider espionage, it has a few interesting points, and some amusing illustrations of the perils of depending on a junkie lowlife for your extremely sensitive spy activities, but all in all it feels a bit dull. For all the high stakes, it just comes off as rather inert, more interested in Hutton moping around than anything else.

wait, wrong one...

Timothy Hutton is an underrated talent.  Sean Penn is over the top here very zero nuance.   Painfully slow pacing.   Fascinating story.

Looking forward to the next generation inspired by the Christo-fascist coup in Bolivia (excuse me, I mean "interim leadership") being laundered by the corporate media establishment. Though they can get their idealism of covert interventions in democratic processes punctured by Twitter commenters rather than an accidental telex message.

Based on a true story it's about two naive young men who get into the spy business. Sean Penn is out of control as a drug dealer/user who acts as a courier selling American secrets to the Russians provided by his friend who is disgusted by the secrets he uncovers working for the CIA.
It all ends badly of course.

Espionar é fácil demais, ainda mais se você é indicado a um cargo tão importante sendo filho de uma pessoa influente. A vida descompromissada dos protagonistas mostra eles como vagabundos em diferentes aspectos, porém, no fundo, tem algo guardado dentro de si. Cada um age da sua maneira, mesmo fazendo cagadas.

Parecia mais um drama do que um thriller. Eu gostei das performances, ótima atuação principal. Definitivamente achei um ótimo filme

Os últimos 10 minutos foram poderosos.

Love it

Opa, não é a série da marvel

couldn't find falcon and the winter soldier on 123movies so i'd say this was a close second