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Release Date 22nd December 2006 (USA)
Studio Universal Pictures
Director Robert De Niro
Screenwriters Eric Roth
Co-Starring Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, John Turturro
Genre Drama, Thriller, War
MPAA Rating Rated 'R' for some violence, sexuality and language.

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    Official Synopsis

Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) understands the value of secrecy-discretion and commitment to honor have been embedded in him since childhood. As an eager, optimistic student at Yale, he is recruited to join the secret society Skull and Bones, a brotherhood and breeding ground for future world leaders. Wilson's acute mind, spotless reputation and sincere belief in American values render him a prime candidate for a career in intelligence, and he is soon recruited to work for the OSS (the precursor to the CIA) during WWII.

As one of the covert founders of the CIA, working in the heart of an organization where duplicity is required and nothing is taken at face value, Edward's' idealism is steadily eroded by a growing suspicious nature, reflective of a world settling into the long paranoia of the Cold War. As his methods are adopted as standard operating procedure, Wilson develops into one of the Agency's veteran operatives, all the while combating his KGB counterpart. However, his steely dedication to his country comes at an ever-increasing price. Not even his wife Clover (Angelina Jolie) or his beloved son can divert Wilson from a path that will force him to sacrifice everything in pursuit of this job.

    Angelina's Role

Angelina Jolie portrays Clover Wilson. Clover is married to Edward Wilson and they have a son.

    Filming Locations

• Filming began on location throughout New York State, during the months August 2005 to February 2006
• The Dominican Republic was used for location shots early November 2005 • Major interior shots are taken from famous buildings such as the Gould Memorial Library and Pratt Institute in NYC
• Internal shots were undertaken in London and Washington early December 2005

    Trivia

• Leonardo DiCaprio was originally cast as the younger Edward Wilson but dropped out.
• Robert De Niro, had been working on this film for ten years as his "pet project".
• Francis Ford Coppola originally was set to direct.
• Angelina Jolie received a $10,000,000 salary for the film.
• The film has grossed $100,173,369 world wide in it's theatric release
• The film has grossed $40.47 million in the USA from DVD sales alone

    Quotes

Angelina's Movie Quotes
• "What you do? I don't know what you do! You leave at five, you're home at ten, seven days a week! I live with a ghost! I don't know anything about you!"
• "Bonesmen first, God second."
• "What are you going to do, Edward? Save the world?"

Quotes from Angelina about the Movie
On what attracted her to the character : "I guess I see her as being as strong as a woman could be at that time. I also liked that there were many things about her that were broken. And often, I don't get to play that, which is why it took so long for Bob [De Niro] and me to decide that I should play that part. She's much more subservient, and she's more vulnerable, she's very broken. As an actress, it was a great challenge, and as a woman, as much as I feel very strongly about certain things, there are certainly pieces of me that are broken as well.”
On what the movie is about: ''The story unfolds like a mystery. You've got people collecting clues and trying to solve what happened. But it's also very real and personal. We didn't want it to be too melodramatic or too polished. We didn't want it to be a typical movie.''

Quotes from Angelina's collegues
Robert De Niro on Angelina: "I was very lucky to get her. She had always wanted to do it. We had a few meetings. She surprised me even more with what she did."
Matt Damon on working with Angelina: “Working with Angie, I was just talking to somebody about this upstairs, I also experienced working with Brad too… There’s like just this unbelievable extra thing that they bring with them, which I wouldn't wish upon anybody - which is camped outside the hotel right now are 25 to 50 photographers just waiting because she's in this building. And that would happen when we were shooting at the armory over in Brooklyn. I'd know when she was working because I'd come to work and there would be all these people there. But once we were inside, she and Brad both have this unbelievable ability… I've talked to Clooney about it and Clooney's like, 'I could never do this. It would just eat away at me.' But they just leave it. They just leave it behind them.

We'd get into rehearsals and she was so good in this movie, and so different from anything that she'd done. I just remember thinking, 'God, that's why this is all happening in the first place.' You get so caught up in all this celebrity stuff. They're everywhere and you forget that there's this reason underneath all of it is she's an incredible actress. And I don't know how she handles that stuff. I definitely just couldn't do it. I wouldn't be able to do it. But as George always says, in terms of Brad, he says, 'That's why he's Brad Pitt.' I couldn't do it.”

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