This is the third film based on
Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director
Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first
go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug
investigation after a close friend of the President (a Reaganesque Donald
Moffat) is murdered by a Colombian drug cartel. When Ryan discovers that the
President's wealthy friend was in league with the cartel, the President's
devious national security adviser (Harris Yulin) and an ambitious CIA deputy
director (Henry Czerny) send a secret paramilitary force into Colombia to
wipe out the drug lords. The force is captured and then abandoned by the
President's lackeys. It falls to Ryan to enter Colombia and rescue them,
aided only by a renegade operative named Clark (Willem Dafoe), with both his
life and career on the line.| Harrison Ford | Jack Ryan |
| Willem Dafoe | Clark |
| Anne Archer | Cathy Ryan |
| Joaquim de Almeida | Felix Cortez |
| Henry Czerny | Robert Ritter |
| Harris Yulin | James Cutter |
| Donald Moffat | President Bennett |
| Miguel Sandoval | Ernesto Escobedo |
| Benjamin Bratt | Captain Ramirez |
| Raymond Cruz | Chavez |
| Dean Jones | Judge Moore |
| Thora Birch | Sally Ryan |
| Ann Magnuson | Moira Wolfson |
| Hope Lange | Senator Mayo |
| Tom Tammi | Emile Jacobs |
| Tim Grimm | Dan Muray |
| Belita Moreno | Jean Fowler |
| James Earl Jones | Admiral James Greer |
| Honorato Magaloni | Mining Company Manager |
| Harley Venton | DEA Agent |
| M. Martinez | Chemist |
| Kamala Lopez | Venezuelan Telephonist |
| Rex Linn | Washington Detective |
| Aaron Lustig | Dr. Polk |
| Marjorie Lovett | President's Secretary |
| Jorge Luke | Sipo |
| Cameron Thor | DEA Surveillance Agent |
| Alejandro Bracho | Fernandez |
| Guillermo Rios | Gate House Guard |
| Diana Sowle | Cartel Maid |
| Lynne Stewart | Greer's Secretary |
| Cam Brainard | Coast Guardman |
| John Rixey Moore | Spock |
| Christine Moore | Greer's Widow |
| Theodore Raimi | Satellite Analyst |
| Miguel Perez | DEA Agent |
| John Putch | Blackhawk Co-Pilot |
| Juan Carlos Colombo | Cortez's Bodyguard |
| Mark Bailey | Reporter |
| Patrick Bauchau | Enrique Rojas |
| Elizabeth Dennehy | Reporter |
| Reed Diamond | Coast Guard Chief |
| Kim Flowers | Restaurant Hostess |
| Kevin Cooney | CIA Counsel |
| Chris Conrad | Sniper Sergeant |
| Patricia Belcher | INS Officer |
| Jared Chandler | Radio Man |
| Vondie Curtis-Hall | Voice-Print Analyst |
| John La Fayette | CIA Analyst |
| Tom Isbell | Restaurant Doctor |
| Ken Howard | Committee Chairman |
| Blanca Guerra | Escobedo's Wife |
| Reg E. Cathey | Sergeant Major |
| Denice Kumagai | Nurse |
| Colleen Flynn | Coast Guard Captain |
| Ellen Geer | Rose |
| Vaughn Armstrong | Blackhawk Pilot |
| Clark Gregg | Staff Sergeant |
| Greg Germann | Petey |
| Jaime Gomez | Sergeant Oso |
Genre/Type - Action, Thriller, Action Thriller, Political Thriller
Produced by - Paramount
Running time - 141 min.
The Last of the Finest (1990, John MacKenzie)
Arlington Road (1999, Mark Pellington)
Sniper (1992, Luis Llosa)
Crimson Tide (1995, Tony Scott)