The Sum of All Fears
27,000 nuclear weapons. One is missing.
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5/31/2002Runtime
124 minsOverview
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
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A high-stakes political thriller that rides the knife's edge between intelligence analysis and catastrophic miscalculation, where a missing nuclear weapon becomes the trigger for global brinkmanship. It's taut and propulsive, driven by the creeping fear that the machinery of power, when operating on incomplete information, can stumble into apocalypse.
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Ben Affleck
Jack Ryan
Morgan Freeman
DCI William Cabot
James Cromwell
President Fowler
Liev Schreiber
John Clark
Bridget Moynahan
Dr. Cathy Muller
Alan Bates
Dressler
Ciarán Hinds
President Nemerov
Philip Baker Hall
Defense Secretary Becker
Ron Rifkin
Secretary of State Owens
Bruce McGill
National Security Advisor Revell
Colm Feore
Olson
Josef Sommer
Senator Jessup
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