The Sum of All Fears (2002)

Director:

Phil Alden Robinson

Writers (WGA):

Tom Clancy (novel)
Paul Attanasio (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

31 May 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

27,000 Nuclear Weapons. One Is Missing.

Plot:

CIA analyst Jack Ryan must thwart the plans of a terrorist faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's newly elected president by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore.

Plot Keywords:

CIA | Russia | Jack Ryan | Nuclear Bomb | Scientist

Awards:

2 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Ben Affleck	...	Jack Ryan
Morgan Freeman	...	DCI William Cabot
James Cromwell	...	President Robert 'Bob' Fowler
Ken Jenkins	...	Admiral Pollack
Liev Schreiber	...	John Clark
Bruce McGill	...	National Security Advisor Gene Revell
John Beasley	...	General Lasseter
Russell Bobbitt	...	Israeli Pilot
Philip Baker Hall	...	Defense Secretary David Becker
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

Also Known As:

Der Anschlag (Germany)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence, disaster images and brief strong language.

Runtime:

124 min | Spain:128 min

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English | Russian | Ukrainian | German | Arabic

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:12 | South Korea:12 | Malaysia:U | New Zealand:M | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Austria:12 (Steiermark) | Austria:16 | Brazil:12 | Canada:14A (DVD rating) | Finland:K-15 | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #38988)

Filming Locations:

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

When Ben Affleck first arrived on the set he told director Phil Alden Robinson, "Nice working with you again." Robinson said, "What do you mean 'again'?". Affleck explained that when Robinson was filming the scene in Boston's Fenway Park for Field of Dreams (1989), he and Matt Damon were among the thousands of extras.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The Berlin Brigade mentioned at the start of the movie was disbanded in 1994, eight years before the movie takes place (2002).

Quotes:

Dressler: So what shall we make of Chechnya, asking the West for protection? She is like a beautiful virgin, escaping the clutches of a lecherous bear... and running to Bill Clinton to save her maidenhood.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)

Soundtrack:

If We Get Through This

I liked this one a lot. I like Ben Affleck, and the rest of the cast

I'm a 64 year-old male. I thought this movie was quite well-made. It's very suspenseful, and I think Ben Affleck did just fine. He's pretty damn good. Liev Schrieber did his usual great job, and what would we do without Morgan Freeman and John Cromwell, Alan Bates? Bruce McGill is in this thing, as are Ciarin Hinds, Philip Baker Hall, and Ron Rifkin, (from "Alias"). I thought the decision-making of the Soviet and American presidents, as they get ever closer to mutually assured destruction, was depicted quite well. And yes, the special effects were very good. Like the helicopter crashes. How do they do that stuff? Anyway, in real life, we don't need third-party bad guys to lure us into a needless war. We elect people who do that, and THEY bring in guys like Chalabi to help out. And, I don't know. I think some reviewers are just "too cool for school" and need to get out there and show us their own hit-movie-making talents.