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Courier, The
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[Opens March 19 in theaters and played March 17 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups.] Dominic Cooke's captivating, gripping, factually based, intense, well-acted, dark, 111-minute "cold war" spy thriller in which charming British salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch), who has a wife (Jessie Buckley) and young son (Keir Hills) in London, is recruited by a CIA agent (Rachel Brosnahan) and an MI-6 operative (Angus Wright) in 1960 to work with decorated, high-ranking Russian Colonel Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in Moscow to deliver covert military intel to England in an attempt to help diffuse the Cuban Missile Crisis, but their dangerous, secret mission eventually goes off the rails.

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Year:
2021
Rating:
 PG-13
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