Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Director/Writer: | Christopher Hampton |
| Director of Photography: | Denis Lenoir |
| Editor: | George Akers |
| Production Designer: | Caroline Amies |
| Music: | Philip Glass |
| Producer: | Norma Heyman |
| Fox Searchlight; R; 94 minutes | |
| Release: | 11/96 |
| Cast: | Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Robin Williams, Christian Bale and Eddie Izzard |
| Based on the novel by Joseph Conrad |
For a film with anarchists, spies and terrorists as its central characters, The Secret Agent is oddly apolitical. Politics is secondary to the loveless marriage of Winnie (Arquette) and Verloc (Hoskins), a loathsome Brit who holds anarchist meetings in his porn shop and then reports the proceedings to the police. Williams, in an unbilled role, is the one character to portray a sinister baseness lacking in the other characters.
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