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Storyline

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.

Released

2002-05-31
Revenue

$193,921,372
Budget

$68,000,000
Runtime

2hr 4m
Genre

Thriller, Action, Drama
Status

Released
Language

العربية, English, Pусский, Український, Deutsch
6.5
Production

Paramount Pictures, Mace Neufeld Productions

Crew

Phil Alden Robinson

Director

Paul Attanasio

Screenplay

Mace Neufeld

Producer

Keywords:

central intelligence agency (cia) usa president based on novel or book atomic bomb spy cold war intelligence chechnya intelligence agency nuclear explosion terrorism jack ryan ex military russian president baltimore, maryland cia analyst intelligence analyst arms inspection imminent threat

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Cast

Ben Affleck

Jack Ryan

Morgan Freeman

DCI William Cabot

James Cromwell

President Fowler

Liev Schreiber

John Clark

Bridget Moynahan

Dr. Cathy Muller

Alan Bates

Dressler

Ciarán Hinds

President Nemerov

Philip Baker Hall

Defense Secretary Becker

Ron Rifkin

Secretary of State Owens

Bruce McGill

National Security Advisor Revell

Colm Feore

Olson

Josef Sommer

Senator Jessup

Ken Jenkins

Admiral Pollack

Michael Byrne

Anatoli Grushkov

John Beasley

General Lasseter

Jamie Harrold

Dillon

Ian Mongrain

Syrian Radar Operator

Russell Bobbitt

Israeli Pilot

Al Vandecruys

US STRATCOM Colonel

Richard Cohee

Mt. Weather General

Philip Pretten

President's Military Aide

Alison Darcy

Fowler's Aide

Richard Marner

President Zorkin

Ostap Soroka

Zorkin's Translator

Robert Martin Robinson

Zorkin's Interviewer

Dale Godboldo

Rudy

Lee Garlington

Mary Pat Foley

Stefan Kalipha

Arab Gravedigger

Nabil Elouahabi

Ghazi

Maria Monakhova

Zorkin's Aide

Francois Bryon

CIA Wardrobe Guy

Pragna Desai

Dr. Rita Russell

Michel 'Gish' Abou-Samah

Olson's Translator

Edward Zinoviev

Nemerov's Aide

Sheena Larkin

Pam Lathrop

Frank Fontaine

General Rand

Andre Cornellier

Kremlin Photographer

Maxime Opadtchii

Kremlin Photographer's Assistant

Mariusz Sibiga

Nemerov's Translator

Norman Mikeal Berketa

American Scientist

Lev Prygunov

General Saratkin

Mace Neufeld

WHCA Dinner Chairman

Jennifer Seguin

President's Aide

Josh Kimmel

White House Mess Waiter

Evgeniy Lazarev

General Dubinin

Sven-Ole Thorsen

Haft

Heinar Piller

Dressler's Associate

Arthur Holden

Dressler's Associate

Marcel Sabourin

Monsieur Monceau

Vie Nystrom

Dressler's Secretary

Joel Bissonnette

Jared Mason

Kwasi Songui

Dockyard Navy Veteran

Marina Lapina

Nemerov's Wife

Victoria Reuter

Russian Nurse

France Arbour

Spassky's Mother

Lubomir Mykytiuk

Spassky

Vladimir Radian

Orlov

Gregory Hlady

Milinov

Valeri Koudriavtsev

Ukrainian Guard

Victor Pedtrchenko

Ukrainian Guard

Willie Gault

Sportscaster

Gary Gelfand

Sportscaster

Arnold McCuller

National Anthem Singer

Craig Hosking

Helicopter Pilot

Jerry Markbreit

Referee

John Eaves

Secret Service Agent

J.J. Carle

Hospital Physician

David Vazquez

Marine Rescuer

David Schaap

US Stratcom Colonel

LisaGay Hamilton

Capt. Lorna Shiro

Kirk Taylor

AFRAT Specialist Wesson

Jason Antoon

AFRAT Specialist Stubbs

Lisa Bronwyn Moore

NAOC Hotline Operator

Aleksandr Belyavskiy

Admiral Ivanov

Jason Winer

Aircraft Carrier Petty Officer

Antonio David Lyons

Aircraft Carrier Petty Officer

Lennie Loftin

Aircraft Carrier Duty Officer

Mike McDougal

Russian Pilot

Matt Holland

Pickup Truck Owner

Roger Tonry

F-16 Pilot

Oleg Belkin

Russian Defense Minister

Constantine Gregory

General Bulgakov

Griffith Brewer

Burn Victim

Jacklyn St. Pierre

Baltimore Nurse

Mariah Inger

Baltimore Nurse

Mark Antony Krupa

US STRATCOM Captain

Joseph Antaki

Arab Doctor

Marcel Jeannin

Baltimore Cop

Gerry Wood

AF Lt. Colonel

Conrad Pla

Pentagon Security Guard

Philip Akin

General Wilkes

Henri Pardo

Pentagon NCO

Irwin Dillion

Pentagon Mo-Link Operator

Real Auger

Dubinin's Killer

Gilles Marsolais

Dubinin's Killer

Eric Steibi

Dressler's Aide

Marie-Josée Colburn

Mother (uncredited)

Marie Matiko

Captain Vicky Shiro (uncredited)

Laraine Newman

Russian Translator on TV (uncredited)

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A Review by John Chard 8

Written by John Chard on 2019-03-16

Let's see. Who else has 27,000 nukes for us to worry about? The Sum of All Fears is directed by Phil Alden Robinson and adapted to scre... read more

Let's see. Who else has 27,000 nukes for us to worry about? The Sum of All Fears is directed by Phil Alden Robinson and adapted to screenplay by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne from the novel of the same name written by Tom Clancy. It stars Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Ciaran Hinds, Liev Schreiber, Bridget Moynahan and Michael Byrne. Music is scored by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by John Lindley. Film is the fourth film to feature the character Jack Ryan (Affleck). It is set in present day 2002 but with Ryan younger than in the other films and at the start of his career in the CIA. Plot is Cold War themed and finds America in a sweat when it is found that renegade terrorists have a nuclear weapon in their possession; just as a new supposed radical president takes up office in Russia. Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal. 2002 saw two great thrillers released that starred Ben Affleck, one was Changing Lanes, the other was this Jack Ryan based effort that attempted to reboot the series. Coming a year after the September 11 attacks and featuring a plot involving terrorists using a bomb that America supplied the Israelis in the 70s during the Yom Kippur War, it was material too close to the bone for some critics. Yet the film did well at the box office in the States and including Worldwide takings it garnered well over $100 million in profit. Impressive figures considering it's not an action blockbuster, it relies on brain over brawn and leading man Affleck was on the back of Pearl Harbor and bearing the brunt of critical scorn. Each day we lose a little bit more of our separate, sovereign ability to determine our own futures... and each day the world comes a little bit closer to that terrible moment when the beating of a butterfly's wings unleashes a hurricane God himself cannot stop. Comforted by the superb cast around him, which also includes the likes of Colm Feore, Phillip Baker Hall and Alan Bates in support slots, Affleck proves perfect for the material to hand. Without doubt he's no Harrison Ford, in the same way Moynahan is no Anne Archer, tough boots to fill in the roles of Jack and Cathy Ryan respectively, but in a re-jig of Ryan the character, we now have the arrogance of youth dressed up in slacks and t-shirt, a smart brained youngster beginning his CIA career at a perilous time, a time that thankfully is devoid of jingoistic flag waving, but of adult political sensibilities. Affleck's Ryan as a character is as refreshing as the writers' responsible attitude is. You dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. You dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Do not lecture me on Chechnya! With shades of the Cuban Missile Crisis and a Fail-Safe like finale, The Sum of All Fears rounds out as a nail biter of a thriller. Dig deeper and some implausibilities surface, but we are asked to tune into the paranoia and get in deep with the characters trying to avert global catastrophe, to decry the film's cerebral thriller qualities is churlish. The Jack Ryan parts of the film involving Cathy the girlfriend are the least interesting, but here's the thing, young Jack Ryan is just one of the components making up a far bigger whole. The film isn't solely a Jack Ryan movie. The source novel was a door stopper, so inevitably much as been excised from it, and inevitably fans of the book have been vocal in their displeasure; though we would have needed another hour of film to even get close to Clancy's big block of fiction. So in place is a picture that is uncomplicated in structure and story telling and comes in at under two hours running time. It's credit to director Robinson that The Sum of All Fears engrosses from start to finish. It was hoped that the reboot would herald the start of a run of more Jack Ryan based movies, but in spite of the great box office, this didn't materialise. But that is in no way any marker to the quality of the film, or its standing in the Jack Ryan series. Judge it on its own merits and ideas and the rewards are many, especially on a second viewing. At the time of writing Jack Ryan will return to the big screen in December 2013, titled simply as Jack Ryan, with another young actor, Chris Pine in the role of Ryan. Undoubtedly that will be high on action, such is the way of drawing in the young dollars at the multiplexes these days. But if it has half the tension and brains of Robinson's picture then we will be blessed. If not? Then there's an even bigger reason to treasure Jack Ryan's 2002 version. 7.5/10

A Review by Wuchak 8

Written by Wuchak on 2020-06-21

_**The sum of all OUR fears**_ A nuke falls into the hands of a neo-fascist madman who wants to pit America against Russia. Then the unth... read more

A Review by sooner1ksn

Written by sooner1ksn on 2021-11-25

As a movie, it is OK, actually one of Afflec's better efforts. However, apparently the writer of the screenplay read a different book than ... read more

A Review by Geronimo1967 6

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2024-02-11

For once, Morgan Freeman isn't playing the US President in this rather run of the mill, political apocalypse film. He's actually the CIA dir... read more

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A Review by John Chard

A Review by John Chard 8

Written by John Chard on 2019-03-16

Let's see. Who else has 27,000 nukes for us to worry about? The Sum of All Fears is directed by Phil Alden Robinson and adapted to screenplay by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne from the novel of t...

A Review by Wuchak 8

Written by Wuchak on 2020-06-21

_**The sum of all OUR fears**_ A nuke falls into the hands of a neo-fascist madman who wants to pit America against Russia. Then the unthinkable happens. Based on the Tom Clancy novel, "The Sum...

A Review by sooner1ksn

Written by sooner1ksn on 2021-11-25

As a movie, it is OK, actually one of Afflec's better efforts. However, apparently the writer of the screenplay read a different book than I did, because "The Sum Of All Fears", the movie, had about ...

A Review by Geronimo1967 6

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2024-02-11

For once, Morgan Freeman isn't playing the US President in this rather run of the mill, political apocalypse film. He's actually the CIA director "Cabot" who is working with an analyst "Jack Ryan" (Be...