The Package

The Package Information

The Package is a 1989 political thriller film directed by Andrew Davis and starring Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy and Tommy Lee Jones. Set during the Cold War, the film portrays an assassination conspiracy within both the U.S. and Soviet militaries. The Americans and Soviets are about to sign a disarmament treaty to completely eliminate nuclear weapons, but elements within each country's military are vehemently opposed to such a plan and determined to stop it at all costs. Roger Ebert awarded the film three stars out of four, calling it " smarter than most thrillers".

Plot

Gene Hackman stars as Johnny Gallagher, a Special Forces Master Sergeant in the United States Army who is assigned to escort a prisoner, an Army deserter named Thomas Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones) from West Berlin back to the United States. When Boyette escapes, Gallagher pursues him and discovers that Boyette is actually a professional assassin hired to kill the leader of the Soviet Union after a meeting in Chicago with the president of the United States. Gallagher is joined by his ex-wife Eileen, a lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General Corps of the US Army (Joanna Cassidy) and Chicago police Lt. Milan Delich (Dennis Franz).

The plot is actually very derivative of Frederick Forsyth's novel, Day of the Jackal (1971), describing a fictional attempt on French President Charles de Gaulle.

Cast

Gene Hackman as U.S. Army Master Sergeant Johnny Gallagher
Joanna Cassidy as U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Gallagher
Tommy Lee Jones as Thomas Boyette
John Heard as U.S. Army Colonel Glen Whitacre
Dennis Franz as Chicago Police Lieutenant Milan Delich
Pam Grier as U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Ruth Butler
Reni Santoni as Chicago Police Lieutenant
Ike Pappas as himself

Production notes

Although the story takes place in Germany, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Virginia, and Chicago, Illinois, the film was shot entirely in Chicago and at the Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten).

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