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Enemy of the State (Original title)
Dates: 1998 (Copyright), 25 December 1998 (Release)

Countries: USA, United Kingdom

Director: Tony Scott

Synopsis: Thriller. Following the assassination of a congressman by a security official and his cohorts in a public park, it is revealed that a photographer has actually filmed the incident and thus possesses the potentially incriminating evidence against the protagonists. On the run from the culprits, the photographer passes the video to a friend, Robert Clayton Dean, who is an up-and-coming attorney. Dean then finds himself embroiled in the cover-up that ensues, endangering his own life and the lives of those around him.Synopsis: Thriller about an up-and-coming black attorney whose fast-track career and happy home life are destroyed when a chance encounter with an old friend leaves him in possession of incriminating evidence against a corrupt State Department administrator on loan to the National Security Agency. The agent uses his powerful position to hunt the attorney down, after framing him for murder.

Genre:
Thriller