The Saint (1997)

Directed by

Phillip Noyce

Genre

comedy film, action film, romance film, thriller film, spy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 1,266 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A master thief and disguise artist steals secrets and valuables for hire. He takes on a job from a Russian oil magnate but falls for a scientist he is sent to kidnap, forcing him to choose between his mission and his conscience.

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What happens

The Saint is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick, and starring Val Kilmer in the title role, with Elisabeth Shue and Rade Šerbedžija. The plot of the film revolves around the title character who is a high-tech thief and master of disguise, who becomes the anti-hero while using the moniker of various saints. He paradoxically lives in the underworld of international industrial theft and espionage. The film was a modest financial success with a worldwide box office of $169.4 million, rentals of $28.2 million, and continuous DVD sales. It is loosely based on the character of Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in 1928 for a series of books published as "The Saint", which ran until 1983. The Saint character has also featured in a series of Hollywood films made between 1938 and 1954, a 1940s radio series starring Vincent Price (and others) as Templar, a popular British television series of the 1960s starring Roger Moore, and a 1970s series starring Ian Ogilvy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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