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The Good Shepherd

Movie (2006)

"The untold story of the most powerful covert agency in the world."

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

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Released:	Dec 11th, 2006
Budget:	$85,000,000.00
Revenue:	N/A

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Matt Damon
plays Edward Wilson

Angelina Jolie
plays Margaret 'Clover' Russell

Alec Baldwin
plays Sam Murach

Tammy Blanchard
plays Laura

Billy Crudup
plays Arch Cummings

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The character Yuri Modin is loosely based on supposed Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn.
Robert De Niro had a deal with Leonardo DiCaprio who was interested in playing the film's protagonist Edward Wilson. De Niro planned to shoot the movie in the fall of 2004 but DiCaprio couldn't do it then because he was making The Departed for Martin Scorsese. The role ultimately went to Matt Damon, who played DiCaprio's antagonist in The Departed. Both movies were nominated for Oscars in 2007.
William Hurt's character, Phillip Allen, is partly based on Allen Dulles, OSS operative and later CIA director during the Bay of Pigs invasion. He left the CIA shortly afterward, though not for any reason of financial impropriety.
The violinist providing the solo soundtrack near the end of the movie was Lindsay Deutsch, from Los Angeles.

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