Search - The Peacemaker [DTS] on DVD

MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Language Movie Release: 1997 DVD Release: 07/06/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 4 mins Studio: DreamWorks Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Action, Action Thriller, Glamorized Spy Film See Also: Peacemaker

The first motion picture produced by DreamWorks SKG, The Peacemaker (1997) was a spy thriller that married the exotic locations and derring-do of James Bond with the high-tech obsession and post-Cold War politics of Tom Clancy. Greedy Russian military officers crash two trains into each other, the warheads aboard one causing a nuclear blast. The accident is a cover for the theft of some of the weapons for sale to terrorists and rogue governments. In the U.S., intelligence officer Lt. Col. Tom Devoe (George Clooney), isn't fooled. Neither is Dr. Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman), the acting head of a White House task force on nuclear smuggling. Devoe and Kelly team up to find the nukes, and they are able to stop the transfer of the weapons in a raid at the Iranian border, but one warhead is missing. It's in the hands of Dusan Gavrich (Marcel Iures), a grief-stricken terrorist planning to call the world's attention to the war in the former Soviet Union with a nuclear explosion in Manhattan. Although fictional, The Peacemaker was based on the magazine article "One Point Safe" by Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn, a factual investigative news report about nuclear weapons smuggling in Russia. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

George Clooney - Thomas Devoe
Nicole Kidman - Julia Kelly
Marcel Iures - Dusan Gavrich
Alexander Baluev - Alexsander Kodoroff
Rene Medvesek - Vlado Mirich

Mimi Leder's thriller The Peacemaker comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. English soundtracks are rendered in both DTS 5.1, and Dolby Digital Surround. There are no subtitles, but the soundtracks are both closed-captioned. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, but this Dreamworks release does boast excellent sound and picture quality making it worthwhile for any genre enthusiast. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide