Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	December 9, 2011 (LA/NY) December 16, 2011 (Limited)
On DVD:	March 20, 2012
Genre:	Suspense, Drama
Director:	Tomas Alfredson
Writer:	Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
Cast:	Gary Oldman, Ciaran Hinds, Jared Harris, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Svetlana Khodchenko
Studio:	Focus Features
Running Time:	127 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated R for violence, some sexuality/nudity and language

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the long-awaited feature film version of John le Carré’s classic bestselling novel. The thriller is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In). The screenplay adaptation is by the writing team of Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan.

The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with...

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Take James Bond, The Bourne Identity, Mission: Impossible and True Lies and combine them altogether, you'll get a movie that's about as far away from what Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, a methodically methodical thriller that harkens back to spy films of old, does it well, and then does it too well. The result: an even-tempered, extremely well-made picture that requires more patience from its audience than it has any right to and lacks a gratifying pay-off for doing so.

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