set in the 1970s los angeles and christopher boyce has just dropped out of seminary school and returned back home were his father gets him a job where he monitors intelligence documents. his old friend daulton lee is a ratty cock drug dealer and and gets caught in a set up and must choose between becoming a narc or facing a long stint in prison. when up on bail and he jumps and heads to mexico city. chris offers lee in a partnership to be his messenger to sell secret papers to the soviet union embassy in mexico city and because of the disgrace he feels about the us government control over weaker countries to their own gain. but over time the two begin to clash with their motivations and find themselves in something bigger then they had originally intended. director john schlesinger has spun out such films like the respectable midnight cowboy and marathon man and sunday bloody sunday and day of the locust. while the falcon and the snowman might not be held up that high and there no question that this sombre espionage drama (inspired by a true incident) is an unjustly overlooked character portrait. everything about it and is quite a subdued affair with no real grandeur qualities hitting a massive mark. the driving factor of the film has got to be the admirably versatile lead performances of timothy hutton and sean penn as the two ambitious young lads chris and daulton. penn is especially good with his uneasy intensity and which works well off hutton superbly cool and collected turn. what starts off as easy and we watch the situation gradually crumble and as the two amateurs find themselves really out of their league. the strongly detailed and symbolic (predatory behaviour) plot mainly centres on the pair relationship and that of their reasoning for their actions and which eventually shows us the knotty developments that led to their downfall. the plan opens up like a wound to never properly heal and due to daulton drug addiction and which really makes him go off the rails and leaves chris to pick up all the slack. the searing political aspect is there and but it focus on the themes of idealism (boyce) and greed (lee) to get its point across. both do not mix and results show. suspense is justified through its stimulating pot boiling script and character interactions then that of any visual gimmicks. action is very little and but still there a pressure induced style to schlesinger assured and realistically dark n gritty direction. pacing is mostly well handled and although some sequences do seem to wallow on for too long and but however it grips you as it plays on its authentically paranoid tone to slowly build up to an exploding tight latter end. adeptly fleshed into the technical production is an airily harrowing music score and professionally poignant cinematography. the supporting cast are exceptionally fine with pat hingle and lori singer and david suchet and boris leskin and jerry hardin and joyce van patten. also look out for michael ironside in a tiny part as a fbi agent. a mostly outstanding spy film that benefits largely from talented lead performances and by not playing the usual stakes. it more an emotional ride and then a complex one of twists. recommended. 
set in the 1970s los angeles and christopher boyce has just dropped out of seminary school and returned back home were his father gets him a job where he monitors intelligence documents. his old friend daulton lee is a ratty cock drug dealer and and gets caught in a set up and must choose between becoming a narc or facing a long stint in prison. when up on bail and he jumps and heads to mexico city. chris offers lee in a partnership to be his messenger to sell secret papers to the soviet union embassy in mexico city and because of the disgrace he feels about the us government control over weaker countries to their own gain. but over time the two begin to clash with their motivations and find themselves in something bigger then they had originally intended. director john schlesinger has spun out such films like the respectable midnight cowboy and marathon man and sunday bloody sunday and day of the locust. while the falcon and the snowman might not be held up that high and there no question that this sombre espionage drama (inspired by a true incident) is an unjustly overlooked character portrait. everything about it and is quite a subdued affair with no real grandeur qualities hitting a massive mark. the driving factor of the film has got to be the admirably versatile lead performances of timothy hutton and sean penn as the two ambitious young lads chris and daulton. penn is especially good with his uneasy intensity and which works well off hutton superbly cool and collected turn. what starts off as easy and we watch the situation gradually crumble and as the two amateurs find themselves really out of their league. the strongly detailed and symbolic (predatory behaviour) plot mainly centres on the pair relationship and that of their reasoning for their actions and which eventually shows us the knotty developments that led to their downfall. the plan opens up like a wound to never properly heal and due to daulton drug addiction and which really makes him go off the rails and leaves chris to pick up all the slack. the searing political aspect is there and but it focus on the themes of idealism (boyce) and greed (lee) to get its point across. both do not mix and results show. suspense is justified through its stimulating pot boiling script and character interactions then that of any visual gimmicks. action is very little and but still there a pressure induced style to schlesinger assured and realistically dark n gritty direction. pacing is mostly well handled and although some sequences do seem to wallow on for too long and but however it grips you as it plays on its authentically paranoid tone to slowly build up to an exploding tight latter end. adeptly fleshed into the technical production is an airily harrowing music score and professionally poignant cinematography. the supporting cast are exceptionally fine with pat hingle and lori singer and david suchet and boris leskin and jerry hardin and joyce van patten. also look out for michael ironside in a tiny part as a fbi agent. a mostly outstanding spy film that benefits largely from talented lead performances and by not playing the usual stakes. it more an emotional ride and then a complex one of twists. recommended. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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