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An unsuspecting lawyer life is turned inside out by government agents after a friend slips him evidence regarding a congressman's murder. Close Ad.

Robert Clayton Dean. Rachel F. Edward 'Brill' Lyle. Thomas Brian Reynolds. Carla Dean.

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For much of the movie, the lawyer doesn't even know he has the evidence, a videotape showing the congressman's suicide being faked while a high government official looks on. The official, named Reynolds and played by Jon Voight with glasses and a haircut that make him uncannily resemble Robert McNamara, directs a vendetta against the lawyer that includes planting sexual gossip in the paper, canceling his credit cards, getting him fired and eventually even trying to frame him for the murder. No doubt, although "Enemy of the State" reminded me of that recent scary Anthony Lewis column in the New York Times about Julie Hiatt Steele, an innocent bystander in the Kenneth Starr investigation who had her tax returns audited, her neighbors and employers questioned, and her adoption of a war orphan threatened--all because she testified that Kathleen Willey had asked her to lie about a meeting with President Clinton. It's not the government that is the enemy, this movie argues, so much as bureaucrats and demagogues who use the power of the government to gain their own ends and cover their own tracks. Voight's character is really acting on his own behalf: He wants a communications bill passed because it will make his job easier and perhaps make him richer. He has the congressman Jason Robards killed because he's the key opponent of the bill. Everything else follows from the coverup of the murder. The movie was directed by Tony Scott " Top Gun " , who films technology the way the National Geographic films wetlands. As the Will Smith character dodges around Washington, trying to figure out who's after him and why, the story is told with footage from spy satellites, surveillance cameras, listening devices, bugs, wiretaps and database searches. The first time I saw a movie where a satellite was able to zoom in on a car license plate, I snickered. Recently I was able to log onto a Web site www. If Microsoft gives that away for free, I believe the National Security Agency can read license plates. The fugitive lawyer's only friend is a shadowy underground figure named Brill Gene Hackman , who was an American spy until , and since then has lived an invisible life as a hired gun in the outlands of intelligence and communications.

Enemy of the State. Parents need to know that Enemy of the State is a action movie with frequent profanity, action-style violence, and sexual content, including references to oral sex and infidelity.

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For much of the movie, the lawyer doesn't even know he has the evidence, a videotape showing the congressman's suicide being faked while a high government official looks on. The official, named Reynolds and played by Jon Voight with glasses and a haircut that make him uncannily resemble Robert McNamara, directs a vendetta against the lawyer that includes planting sexual gossip in the paper, canceling his credit cards, getting him fired and eventually even trying to frame him for the murder. No doubt, although "Enemy of the State" reminded me of that recent scary Anthony Lewis column in the New York Times about Julie Hiatt Steele, an innocent bystander in the Kenneth Starr investigation who had her tax returns audited, her neighbors and employers questioned, and her adoption of a war orphan threatened--all because she testified that Kathleen Willey had asked her to lie about a meeting with President Clinton. It's not the government that is the enemy, this movie argues, so much as bureaucrats and demagogues who use the power of the government to gain their own ends and cover their own tracks. Voight's character is really acting on his own behalf: He wants a communications bill passed because it will make his job easier and perhaps make him richer. He has the congressman Jason Robards killed because he's the key opponent of the bill. Everything else follows from the coverup of the murder. The movie was directed by Tony Scott " Top Gun " , who films technology the way the National Geographic films wetlands.

Enemy of the state will smith

A lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N. Robert Clayton Dean : What the hell is happening? Brill : I blew up the building. Robert Clayton Dean : Why? Brill : Because you made a phone call. Sign In Sign In.

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Executive Producer 3 Credits. Archived from the original on 21 May Production Company 3 Credits. Lille Shaw Hamer. Pat Sandston. They're trained in creating high-quality parenting advice based on best practices in child development. Rachel Banks. DVD June 15, "Please retry". Grant Heslov. Dean does not know that he has the disk, much less that the disk proves that CIA operatives killed a Congressman an unbilled Jason Robards because he opposed their plans to expand surveillance.

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Buy this on DVD and you won't be disappointed. You can help us help kids by suggesting a diversity update. During the opening credits, a series of car crashes are shown overhead. The NSA then disseminates false evidence to implicate Dean of working with the mob family of Boss Paulie Pintero and seeing Rachel Banks, an ex-girlfriend he had an affair with. More to explore. Details Edit. The official, named Reynolds and played by Jon Voight with glasses and a haircut that make him uncannily resemble Robert McNamara, directs a vendetta against the lawyer that includes planting sexual gossip in the paper, canceling his credit cards, getting him fired and eventually even trying to frame him for the murder. Will Smith stars as Bobby Dean, a successful Washington lawyer. Robert Clayton Dean. It works in many ways. Jason Lee Daniel Zavitz.