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Release Date: 2006

Cast: Lee Pace, Tammy Blanchard, Alec Baldwin, Michael Gambon, Timothy Hutton, Oleg Stefan, Joe Pesci, Martina Gedeck, Angelina Jolie, Eddie Redmayne, Matt Damon, Keir Dullea ...MORE

Cast: Lee Pace, Tammy Blanchard, Alec Baldwin, Michael Gambon, Timothy Hutton, Oleg Stefan, Joe Pesci, Martina Gedeck, Angelina Jolie, Eddie Redmayne, Matt Damon, Keir Dullea, Gabriel Macht, Robert De Niro, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, John Turturro ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Period piece, Political drama, Spy

The Good Shepherd is a 2006 spy film directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie, with an extensive supporting cast. Although it is a fictional film loosely based on real events, it is advertised as telling the untold story of the birth of counter-intelligence in the Central Intelligence Agency. The film's main character, Edward Wilson (portrayed by Matt Damon), is loosely based on James Jesus Angleton and Richard M. Bissell. This was Joe Pesci's first film appearance after his six year hiatus from acting between 1999 and 2005. A photograph and an audio recording... MORE

The Good Shepherd is a 2006 spy film directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie, with an extensive supporting cast. Although it is a fictional film loosely based on real events, it is advertised as telling the untold story of the birth of counter-intelligence in the Central Intelligence Agency. The film's main character, Edward Wilson (portrayed by Matt Damon), is loosely based on James Jesus Angleton and Richard M. Bissell. This was Joe Pesci's first film appearance after his six year hiatus from acting between 1999 and 2005. A photograph and an audio recording on reel-to-reel tape are dropped off anonymously at the home of Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), a senior CIA officer, after the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba fails due to an undisclosed leak. While riding to work on the bus, Edward is approached by a young boy who asks if Edward has change for a dollar. Upon arriving at work, Edward's assistant checks the serial number of the dollar against a long list of serial numbers assigned to various code names and confirms that Edward has been given a dollar from "Cardinal". The movie then flashes back to 1939. In 1939 Edward is at Yale University and joins LESS