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The Amateur poster

The Amateur(1981)

RDecember 11, 19811h 52m

Action Crime Thriller

54%User score 54 percent

User Score

19 votes

In a world of professional assassins, there is no room for an amateur.

Overview

A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.

Director: Charles Jarrott
Writers: Diana Maddox, Robert Littell

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Facts

Status: Released
Original title: The Amateur
Original language: English
Budget: $8,338,578
Revenue: $6,892,098
Production: Balkan Productions, Tiberius Film Productions

Keywords

assassin
central intelligence agency (cia)
murdered wife

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