Company Business

Sep 6, 1991

1h 38m

★ 5.2

You can't judge a man by the company that keeps him!

Overview

An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.

Genres

Action

Thriller

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Company Business Trailers

Cast

Sam Boyd

Gene Hackman

Pyotr Ivanovich Grushenko

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Elliot Jaffe

Kurtwood Smith

Colonel Pierce Grissom

Terry O'Quinn

Mike Flinn

Daniel von Bargen

Colonel Grigori Golitsin

Oleg Rudnik

Natasha Grimaud

Géraldine Danon

Faisal

Nadim Sawalha

Bruce Wilson

Howard McGillin

Paco Gonzalez

Louis Eppolito

Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics

Shane Rimmer

Dick Maxfield

Michael Tomlinson

Five strangers, each with his own special talents, are recruited by the mysterious 'X'. They do not know why they are brought together, but nonetheless agree to a series of potentially lucrative schemes. A planned bank robbery goes awry when a minor mistake leads to a hostage situation. The robbery is orchestrated by Hwan. When Hwan turns up dead at the designated meeting spot, the remaining men realize something is seriously wrong, and suspicion flares.

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