The Assignment (film)
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Directed by | Christian Duguay |
Produced by | Franco Battista Tom Berry |
Written by | Dan Gordon Sabi H. Shabtai |
Starring | Aidan Quinn Donald Sutherland Ben Kingsley |
Music by | Normand Corbeil |
Cinematography | Christian Duguay David Franco |
Editing by | Yves Langlois |
Distributed by | Triumph Films (US) |
Release date(s) | September 26, 1997 |
Running time | 119 min. |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
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The Assignment is a 1997 spy thriller film directed by Christian Duguay and starring Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, and Ben Kingsley. The film, written by Dan Gordon and Sabi H. Shabtai, is set mostly in the late 1980s and deals with a CIA plan to use Quinn's character to masquerade as the terrorist Carlos the Jackal.