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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1991 DVD Release: 12/03/2002 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 38 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Thriller, Action Thriller

The demise of the Cold War rendered this flat and obsolete spy thriller, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer, mute upon its release in 1991. Gene Hackman plays Sam Boyd, a retired CIA agent, now making ends meet by engaging in industrial espionage. But Sam is recalled to duty and ordered to deliver a captured Russian spy, Pyiotr Grushenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov), to East Berlin for a prisoner exchange. Along with Pyiotr, Sam is also transporting $2 million in Columbian drug money to East Berlin. But due to a series of set-ups, Sam and Pyiotr finds themselves working together to keep from getting killed. Sam tries to get help from the CIA, but it turns out that the CIA (along with the KGB) wants them both dead. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Gene Hackman - Sam Boyd
Mikhail Baryshnikov - Pyiotr Grushenko
Kurtwood Smith - Elliot Jaffe
Terry O'Quinn - Colonel Grissom
Daniel Von Bargen - Mike Flinn

Nicholas Meyer's spy film Company Business comes to DVD with a pair of transfers. The widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and is preferable to the standard full-frame image. The English soundtrack is rendered in Surround, while French and Spanish soundtracks have been recorded in Dolby Digital Mono. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, making it difficult to recommend this MGM/UA release for anyone other than a genre enthusiast or a Gene Hackman fan. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide