Enemy of the State
Produced and released in 1998 by Touchstone Pictures, budget of $90 million, gross of $122 million, color 35mm negative, Panavision anamorphic 2.35:1 screen ratio, digital sound, 131 mins., Laserdisc released 1999, DVD released 1998.
Production:
- Directed by Tony Scott
- Written by David Marconi
- Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
- Original Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
- Cinematography by Daniel Mindel
- Film Editing by Chris Lebenzon
- Sound Editing by David A. Arnold
- Production Design by Benjamín Fernández
- Set Decoration by Garrett Lewis
- Visual Effects by Tim Burke
- Technical Advisors: Chase Brandon, Anthony Pellicano, Steve Uhrig
Cast:
- Will Smith as Robert Clayton Dean
- Gene Hackman as Edward 'Brill' Lyle
- Jon Voight as Thomas Brian Reynolds
- Lisa Bonet as Rachel F. Banks
- Regina King as Carla Dean
- Stuart Wilson as Congressman Sam Albert
- Laura Cayouette as Christa Hawkins
- Loren Dean as Hicks
- Barry Pepper as Det. David Pratt
- Ian Hart as John Bingham
- Jake Busey as Krug
- Scott Caan as Jones
- Jason Lee as Daniel Leon Zavitz
- Gabriel Byrne as Fake Brill
- James LeGros as Jerry Miller
- Dan Butler as Adm. Shaffer
- Jack Black as Fiedler
- Jamie Kennedy as Jamie
- Bodhi Elfman as Van
- Jacob Chambers as Davis
- Alexandra Balahoutis as Martha
- Anna Gunn as Emily Reynolds
- Jascha Washington as Eric Dean
- Rebeca Silva as Maria
- Bobby Boriello as Dylan
- Carl Mergenthaler as Mike
Notes:
According to Maitland McDonagh, the film is a "cold-as-ice exploration of paranoia and alienation. A sleek young meritocrat stands in the lobby of a swank hotel, squirming as his credit cards are repeatedly, inexplicably declined: Welcome to the modern-day version of the classic "naked in a public place" nightmare. And for brash labor advocate Robert Dean (Will Smith), the nightmare's real. One moment he has a perfect life -- job, Georgetown house, beautiful wife (Regina King) and son (Jascha Washington) -- the next minute he runs into old school acquaintance Zavitz (Jason Lee), and everything changes. Zavitz has accidentally filmed some men in black murdering a senator (Jason Robards) for high-level NSA muckety-muck Thomas Reynolds (Jon Voight). Zavitz surreptitiously drops the evidence into Dean's shopping bag and accepts his business card, leading the NSA to believe the two are in cahoots. They turn their considerable resources to the task of ruining Dean, and suddenly his house has been vandalized and bugged, his phones tapped, his credit destroyed and his credibility (not to mention his marriage) compromised: The local papers get a tip that he's mobbed up and having an affair with ex-galpal Rachel Banks (Lisa Bonet), his liaison with a very secretive, very efficient private eye. Even Dean's clothes are wired, and the NSA's army of techno-geeks (cyber slackers who treat the whole business like one big video game) is watching his every move. Enter Dean's last, best hope: Brill (Gene Hackman, clearly reprising his role from Francis Ford Coppola's THE CONVERSATION), a former NSA operative with a bone to pick with the Big Brother society."
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