Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius, too. The hunt is on!
- based on novel or book
- submarine
- cold war
- intelligence
- u.s. navy
- defection
- jack ryan
- ex military
- 1980s
- political thriller
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Sean Connery
Capt. 1st Marko Ramius
Alec Baldwin
Dr. Jack Ryan
Scott Glenn
CDR Bart Mancuso (USS Dallas)
Sam Neill
Capt. 2nd Vasily Borodin
- James Earl Jones — Vice ADM James Greer
- Joss Ackland — Ambassador Andrei Lysenko
- Richard Jordan — Dr. Jeffrey Pelt, National Security Advisor
- Peter Firth — Capt. 2nd Ivan Putin (Political Officer, Red October)
- Tim Curry — Dr. Yevgeni Petrov (Red October)
- Courtney B. Vance — Petty Officer Ronald 'Jonesy' Jones (USS Dallas)
- Stellan Skarsgård — Capt. 2nd Viktor Tupolev (V.K. Konovalov)
- Jeffrey Jones — Skip Tyler
- Timothy Carhart — Bill Steiner
- Larry Ferguson — Chief of the Boat (USS Dallas)
- Fred Thompson — Rear ADM Joshua Painter (Enterprise Carrier Battle Group)
- Directed
- John McTiernan
- Written
- Donald E. Stewart, Larry Ferguson
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 3,738 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Mace Neufeld/Jerry Sherlock Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1990 · You’re hereThe Hunt for Red October
Where it starts.
Patriot Games
1992
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
