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Bookmark this pageAmerican Roulette (1988)
Director: Maurice Hatton
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A depressingly botched political thriller from Hatton and producer Verity Lambert. Andy Garcia - who'd committed to the script just before his Untouchables breakthrough - is Carlos, an implausible South American poet in London. He is also a president in exile, and a target for assassination, though how and why this came to be remains a mystery for a good while. Hatton seems to be angling for an old-fashioned romantic intrigue, with chummy British secret agents, the odd suspense set-piece, and bumbling Soviet spies for comic relief. What he gets is a wayward, muddled mess.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Maurice Hatton
Producer: Graham Easton
Cast: Andy Garcia, Kitty Aldridge, Robert Stephens, Al Matthews, Susannah York, Guy Bertrand full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 102 mins
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