Enemy of the State (film)


Enemy of the State is a 1998 American spythriller about a group of U.S. National Security Agency agents conspiring to kill a U.S. Congressman and try to cover up the murder. It was written by David Marconi, directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It stars Will Smith and Gene Hackman, with Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, and Regina King in supporting roles.

Zavits is eventually killed when he runs into the street in front of a fire truck but immediately prior, he bumped into an old college friend, labor lawyer Robert Clayton Dean Will Smith, and slipped the disc into his shopping bag without his knowledge. When the NSA discovers that Dean might have the video, Reynoldss team raids his house and plants surveillance devices but the video does not turn up. The NSA then disseminates false evidence to implicate Dean of working with the mob family of Boss Paulie Pintero Tom Sizemore and seeing Rachel Banks Lisa Bonet, an exgirlfriend he had an affair with. The subterfuge destroys Deans life he is dismissed from his job, his bank accounts are frozen, and his wife Carla Regina King throws him out of the house.Dean believes Pintero is behind the smear campaign as revenge because Dean blackmailed him into backing off his clients in a prior case, with help from Banks secretive contact Brill Gene Hackman. Dean sets up a facetoface meet with Brill and the NSA sends an impostor Brill to intercept him but the real Brill rescues him. Brill explains that his pursuers are NSA agents and rids him of tracking devices hidden in his clothing. With Dean and Brill in hiding, the NSA agents kill Banks and frame Dean for the murder. ........

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