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(1987) |
t. Commander Tom Farrell (Costner) is a career Navy man, whose heroic rescue of a colleague aboard a stricken ship earn him a position at the Pentagon, working for Secretary of Defense David Brice (Hackman).
At a presidential dinner he meets Susan Atwell (Young) and they begin an affair. It is only when love has blossomed that he discovers that Susan is also the mistress of his boss, Brice.
When Brice dicovers that Susan is seeing someone else, he flies into a jealous rage. During the ensuing struggle, Susan falls to her death.
To cover his tracks, Brice and his "devoted" aide (Will Patton) create a cover story and appoint Farrell to head up the hunt for the man who Susan had been seeing, who he labels a suspected KGB 'mole'.
This, of course puts Farrell in a terrible situation - he needs to work on uncovering the 'mole', whilst hiding all traces of his feelings for Susan and his grief at her death. Indeed, you'd think that his situation couldn't get any worse... And then a damaged Polaroid negative is found by the CIA investigators in Susan's apartment. They believe that computer enhancement will reveal the face of the KGB fugitive. Farrell knows that sooner or later, it's his face that will be revealed on the negative!
So begins a race against time for Farrell. There is "no way out" other than to expose one of the most powerful men in Washington as a murderer. Whilst the CIA get closer to Farrell, Farrell gets closer and closer to the truth about Susan's death.
And all the time in the lab, the computer enhancement of "his" photo gets less and less blurred...
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| | | |  This is a very tense thriller. I first saw this movie in 1988, whilst on my honeymoon waiting for a flight. It's one of those movies that slowly draws you in, and then you find you have to carry on till the surprisingly effective end.
Costner is good in this, probably because he didn't direct it. Hackman is excellent as always, and Young is her usual OK self. The highlight is the strong cast of minor actors, who combine to create a very real backdrop to the main action.
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The big red bumper sticker on the back of Sam Hessleman's wheelchair seat reads: "Of course I'm drunk, I'm no stunt driver!"
There is a chase seen, part of which is on the DC Metro system. During the chase the parties involved exit at the Georgetown Metro stop, which does not exist. -Thanks to G. Johnson
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| | | | The movie itself was adapted from a book entitled "The Big Clock," which had previously been adapted into a 1948 feature film starring Ray Milland and Charles Laughton.
Costner actually did many of his own stunts during the production, which included driving without his prescription glasses much to the dismay of the production's insurance company!
Farrell is in a completely different pose in the Polaroid picture to the one we saw him in when the picture was taken.
When Tom "steals" the government car getting repaired he tears the rear bumper off as it drops off the lift. When you see the car again on the highway the bumper is back on the car.
During the Inaugural Ball at the start of the movie, LCDR Farrell is wearing the Navy Cross. He doesn't actually earn the Navy Cross until he goes to sea and rescues the sailor in a following scene.
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| | | Location Watch: The film, like many Hollywood movies, has no problem with violating the physical geography of its location. It's particularly memorable in this department because after he leads Gene Hackman's henchpersons on a car chase across the Key Bridge into Georgetown, he gets out of his car and runs down the escalator into the Georgetown Metro station (marked by a proper brown Metro station pylon that says "Georgetown" on it), and emerges in the Old Post Office Pavilion. Neat trick, as there is no Metro and certainly no "Georgetown" Station! — even better than the restaurant earlier in the movie affording Costner a physically impossible view of the Washington Monument.
The subway chase was filmed in the Baltimore system because at that time the Washington DC Metro was off-limits to moviemakers. The movie was genuinely filmed, however, in the entrance of the Pentagon. [Thanks to carole]
The breakfast between Brice and David where they talk about the phantom sub was filmed at The Hotel Washington. [Thanks to Virginia]
The breakfast scene was filmed at the Hay-Adams Hotel just across from the White House. [Thanks to Mark]
I was curious about the weekend getaway. Said to be in Annapolis but I didn't recognize any of it. Can anyone help? Thanks. [Thanks to Theresa]
I interned in the Pentagon Public Affairs office in 1989, and No Way Out came up on my first day on the job. When I mentioned to the PA Director what a great movie that was, and how it gave me an idea of where I'd be working, he set the record straight this way: "The movie is about the Secretary of Defense being a bisexual killer. Do you really think we'd give our approval to film here?!" He went on to explain that most hallway scenes were actually filmed at the Dept. of Interior (note the checkerboard floors) although the film crew did manage to con their way past the Pentagon Police for at least one genuine shot in which Kevin Costner rushes to the lobby to make a call at a payphone. The PA Director said Kevin was rushing partly to finish the shot before the brass upstairs could kick everyone out. [Thanks to Bob Cheatham]
Not only the entrance to the Pentagon was used, but inside the building as well... I work there, and in fact one of the corridors they show is the one I walk down to get to my office. All the scenes (including the chase scene) are actually in the building. [Thanks to Jim]
Can you help? Do you know any of the (or any other) filming locations used for No Way Out? [Please send them in]
|  | | | | | The filmmakers employed the talents of Maurice Jarre for the score to the movie as well as using a few pop tracks like "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart and "Twistin' USA".
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