Patriot Games film

Patriot Games (film)

Patriot Games is a film based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy. It was released on June 5, 1992 and directed by Phillip Noyce. In the movie, Jack Ryan was played by Harrison Ford and Jack's doctor-wife, Cathy Muller Ryan, by Anne Archer.

Cast

Harrison Ford - Jack Ryan

Anne Archer - Dr. Caroline "Cathy" Ryan
Patrick Bergin - Kevin O'Donnell

Sean Bean - Sean Miller

Thora Birch - Sally Ryan
James Fox - Lord William Holmes

Samuel L. Jackson - Lt. Cmdr. Robby Jackson
Polly Walker - Annette
J.E. Freeman - Marty Cantor

James Earl Jones - Adm. James Greer

Richard Harris - Paddy O'Neil
Alex Norton - Dennis Cooley
Hugh Fraser - Geoffrey Watkins
David Threlfall - Insp. Robert Highland
Alun Armstrong - Sgt. Owens

Berlinda Tolbert - Sissy Jackson

Hugh Ross - Barrister Atkinson
Gerald Sim - Lord Justice
Pip Torrens - First Aide
Thomas Russell - Ashley
Jonathan Ryan - Jimmy O'Reardon

Andrew Connolly - Charlie Dugan
Karl Hayden - Paddy Boy
Claire Oberman - Lady Holmes
Oliver Stone - Young Holmes
Tom Watt - Electrician
P.H. Moriarty - Court Guard
Rebecca Mayhook - Schoolgirl
Roger Blake - Constable
Martin Cochrane - Constable
Tim Dutton - Constable

Ellen Geer - Rose

John Lafayette - Alex Winter

Shaun Duke - Tony Ferro (as Duke Moosekian)
Fritz Sperberg - Spiva
Brenda James - Secretary (as Brenda Klemme)
Allison Barron - CIA Analyst

Ted Raimi - CIA Technician (as Theodore Raimi)
Philip Levien - Dr. Shapiro
Jesse D. Goins - FBI Agent Shaw (as Jesse Goins)
John Shepard - FBI Helicopter Pilot
Stephen Held - FBI Rifleman
Debora Weston - CNN Reporter

Bob Gunton - Interviewer
Ivan Kane - TV Reporter

Kim Delgado - TV Reporter

Keith Campbell - Ned Clark

Jeff Mandon - Marine Guard
Eric Paul - Marine Guard
Jeff Gardner - Midshipman
Lester T. Tillery - Midshipman
Franklin Dam - Midshipman
Frankie Maldonatti - Midshipman
Bonnie Webster - Midshipman
Pamela Saxon - Midshipman
Leah Tabassi - Midshipman
Michael Ryan Way - Avery
Gregory Paul Jackson - Taxi Driver
Fred Toma - Arab Soldier

Ruben Garfias - Anesthesiologist
Michael Francis Kelly - O'Neil's Bodyguard
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Markus Alexander - Midshipman
Sacha Bennett - Unidentified Role
Bret Culpepper - Patriot Club Rowdy
Lucia Noyce - Schoolgirl at Crossing
Peter Weireter - FBI Director's Bodyguard

The score by James Horner contains musical references to works by Aram Khachaturian (Adagio from "Gayane" Suite) and Dmitri Shostakovich (Symphony No. 5, 3rd mvt.). One particular sequence in the music accompanying the scene in which Ryan, Greer, et al view the live satellite feed of the SAS attack contains a nearly direct sampling from the latter.
Author Tom Clancy distanced himself from the movie because of a number of plot changes. Most significantly, the Prince became "Lord Holmes", the Queen Mother's cousin; and Sean Miller is killed at the end.

Synopsis

Jack Ryan is on a "working vacation" in London with his family, after having retired from the CIA. Here they witness an attack on Lord William Holmes, British Secretary of State of Northern Ireland and a member of the British Royal Family. Ryan intervenes in the attack and kills one of the soldiers and also incapacitates Sean Miller, one of the attackers. Ryan is wounded in the process but testifies in court against Miller, who is part of a breakaway group of the Provisional IRA. Ryan is awarded a knighthood—a KCVO: Knight Commander of the Victorian Order—and eventually returns to the United States.

While being transferred to Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight, Miller's escort convoy is ambushed by ULA terrorists who kill the police officers, and he escapes from custody. He unexpectedly goes to the United States with his team to kill Ryan, who killed his brother during the London attack. Miller is then tracked to Libya, where a number of training camps have operated for years, with the tacit support of the Muammar Qaddafi regime.

After the attempt on his family, Ryan decides to re-join the CIA, having earlier rejected the appeal of his former superior, Admiral James Greer, to do so. Their research and work eventually leads to an ambush on the camp in North Africa, though Miller is not there.

An ambush on the Ryan household takes place, despite tight security as Lord Holmes visits them to present his KCVO. Miller, enraged with anger and revenge on his brother's death, kills his team members as they try to turn their boat back to where Lord Holmes and the Ryans' (except Jack Ryan) are hiding on shore. Ryan and Miller fight hand to hand, and Miller is killed when he falls backward onto a boat anchor.

Credits roll just before Catherine Ryan learns the sex of the child she is going to have, and before she tells Jack and Sally.