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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Language Movie Release: 1997 DVD Release: 12/08/1998 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 4 mins Studio: DreamWorks Total Copies: 29 Genres: Action, Action Thriller, Glamorized Spy Film See Also: The Peacemaker [DTS]

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 directs George Clooney and Nicole Kidman in the action thriller The Peacemaker, which comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1, while French and Spanish soundtracks have been recorded in Dolby Digital Surround. Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include production notes, biographies of the cast and crew, and deleted scenes. This is a solid release from Dreamworks. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide