Swamped by a high tide of Netflix murder porn and Big Stars in Crappy movies, I seek relief over on Prime--land of Bosch.
My god! They've got The Russia House!
Sean Connery. Michelle Pfeiffer.
John le Carre.
I am a sucker for cold war spies.
The second unit shoot in Moscow in 1990 is icy, epic, true to the time and archival footage today.
A drunken Brit book publisher gets involved in a Russian writer's attempt to make good on glasnost.
There's a word you'd forgotten.
That brief period of Soviet "openness" under Gorbachev?
What a fun two hours.
Yes, I've now watched it twice in a month.
Prime's tip list of other spy capers: Duplicity, Despite the Falling Snow, Above & Beyond, Copenhagen, A Good Year.
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