Spartan (film)
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| Directed by | David Mamet |
| Produced by | David Bergstein Moshe Diamant Art Linson Elie Samaha |
| Written by | David Mamet |
| Starring | Val Kilmer Derek Luke William H. Macy |
| Music by | Mark Isham |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | March 8, 2004 |
| Running time | 106 min. |
| Language | English |
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Spartan is an action-adventure/political thriller film written and directed by David Mamet. It was released in U.S. and Canada in March 2004. The film's cast includes Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Ed O'Neill, Tia Texada, and Kristen Bell. Alexandra Kerry, the daughter of U.S. Senator John Kerry, plays a small role as a bartender in the film.
[edit] Synopsis
Robert Scott (Kilmer) is a coldly-efficient secret service operator who trains special forces recruits for the US Government. When Laura Newton (Bell), the Harvard-educated daughter of a high-ranking elected government official disappears, Scott is brought into the operation to find her. He is aided on his assignment by one of his trainees, Curtis (Luke), and Special Forces knife fighting instructor Jackie Black (Texada). The investigation takes him from Boston into the heart of a white slavery ring operating out of Dubai, as he navigates through a number of twists, doublecrosses, and tested loyalties along the way.
[edit] Trivia
- The title makes allusions to Leonidas I, king of Sparta, who, when a neighbor state needed military aid, would send one man. As Scott puts it, "One riot, one ranger." (Mamet previously wrote this line into House of Games.)
- The film's Dubai settings were actually filmed in Los Angeles.
- Eric L. Haney, a career Army non-commissioned officer and member of Delta Force, was a technical advisor and had a small cameo in the film playing the president.
