Company Business |  | Director: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Kurtwood Smith, Terry O'Quinn, Daniel von Bargen
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 49575
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 7.1 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1004032D
ISBN: 0792854020
UPC: 027616881397
EAN: 9780792854029
ASIN: B00006L92Q
Theatrical Release Date: September 6, 1991
Release Date: December 3, 2002
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Product Description
A Russian agent and an American agent are on the run together from both the CIA and the KGB.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-DEC-2002
Media Type: DVD
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 15
Rightfully forgotten January 16, 2010
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:
Though Gene Hackman is quite good as an anachronistically old-school spy in the post Cold War era of computers and advanced technology, Company Business never clicks as a thriller and offers neither excitement nor any engaging character interaction; if you're even consider watching this film, do yourself a favor and rent The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
2.5/4
 Ug! July 8, 2009
Robert Cannon (Arlington, VA United States)
On late nite TV on a B channel where it deserved to be. No recognizable plot. while the premise is two opposing spies involved in a joint prisoner trade who get double crossed, it is not an action movie, it is barely a buddie movie, and it is certainly not a suspense movie. The double cross is explained weakly. Some of the scene set ups were just stupid. It just repeated the same shtick over and over - spy buddies move from one location to another, bad spies chase them, spy buddies escape in a not really exciting way--- next scene.
 Company Business February 22, 2009
Billie Davis (NY)
A good film with twists and turns ala CIA style. If you like the actors, then you will not be disappointed with this film.
A So-So Spy Movie October 30, 2008
D. Hupp (Woodbridge, VA United States)
While I'm a big fan of spy thrillers, Hackman, and Baryshnikov, there was something missing in this one -- either a weak screenplay, lackluster direction or both. The result is a movie with only a moderate amount of real suspense.
Both male leads (Hackman & Baryshnikov) and Geraldine Danon do creditable work in this mediocre spy thriller. I only recommend it if you have nothing else you'd really want to see or if you are avid Gene Hackman and/or Mikhail Baryshnikov fans. It's not one of their best either.
 Business as usual February 13, 2008
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Here's a game for really long car journeys - see how many alternative titles you can remember for this one. At one time or another known as Dinosaurs, Patriots, False Passports and Russian Roulette - and there are a lot more where they came from - with Elliott Gould and Marsha Mason announced in supporting roles (neither is anywhere to be seen in the finished film), Company Business appears to have been re-edited, reshot and retitled more times than anything this side of Heaven's Gate before finally getting a brief US release to disastrous business.
The scars and indecision don't show too badly; this looks like it was always this naff. Hackman and Baryshnikov are amiable in underwritten roles as the obsolete spys set up by their respective employees when a spy swap goes wrong, but Nicholas Meyer is better at directing architecture than people (the first half-hour features some of Ken Adams best production design of the 90s) and just can't think of an ending. Watchable in a TV-movie sort of way, but nothing more.
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