The Falcon and the Snowman

The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 spy film directed by John Schlesinger about two young American men, Christopher Boyce played by Timothy Hutton and Daulton Lee played by Sean Penn, who sold U.S. security secrets to the Soviet Union. The film is based upon the 1979 book The Falcon and the Snowman A True Story of Friendship and Espionage by Robert Lindsey, and features the song This Is Not America, written and performed by David Bowie and the Pat Metheny Group.

Boyce, an expert in the sport of falconrythus, the nickname Falcongets a job at a civilian defense contractor TRW, called RTX in the movie working in the socalled Black Vault, a secure communication facility through which flows information on some of the most classified U.S. operations in the world. Boyce becomes disillusioned with the U.S. government through his new position, especially after reading a misrouted communiqu dealing with the CIAs plan to depose the Prime Minister of Australia. Frustrated by this duplicity, Boyce decides to repay his government by passing classified secrets to the Soviets.Lee is a drug addict and minor smuggler, sometimes called the Snowman in reference to his cocaine sales, who has frustrated and alienated his family. Lee agrees to actually contact and deal with the KGBs agents in Mexico on Boyces behalf, motivated not by idealism but by what he perceives as an opportunity to make money, then eventually settle in his idea of paradise, Costa Rica. ........

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