Company Business

Company Business is a 1991 spy film, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

The two agents are forced to go on the run from both Boyds own Company superiors Kurtwood Smith and Terry OQuinn and the head of the KGB Oleg Rudnik, who all wish to see the exchange completed for reasons that are both obvious and not so obvious. Their only hope may lie in Natasha Grimaud Graldine Danon, a mysterious French beauty from Grushenkos past.According to writerdirector Nicholas Meyers memoir The View from the Bridge, Meyer decided to try his hand at writing an original screenplay at the behest of then CAA executive Rick Nicita. Due to the changing political environment in Russia, Meyer was forced to quickly finish his screenplay that struggled to reflect fastmoving events in Eastern Europe, where the Berlin Wall was collapsing. As a result, the film went into preproduction before the updates could be completed and actors Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov were signed onto the leading roles. Later, Hackman, exhausted from shooting three films backtoback Postcards from the Edge, Narrow Margin, and Class Action, tried to back out of filming two weeks before production was set to begin. Fearing a lawsuit from MGM, Hackman begrudgingly stayed on. ........

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