The Package (film)

The Package
Directed by	Andrew Davis
Produced by	Beverly J. Camhe Tobie Haggerty
Written by	John Bishop
Starring	Gene Hackman Joanna Cassidy Tommy Lee Jones
Music by	James Newton Howard
Cinematography	Frank Tidy
Editing by	Billy Weber Don Zimmerman
Distributed by	Orion Pictures (North America)
Release date(s)	August 25, 1989
Running time	108 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$18 million
Box office	$10,647,219

The Package is a 1989 Orion Pictures film directed by Andrew Davis. Set during the Cold War, this political thriller portrays an assassination conspiracy within both the U.S. and Soviet militaries. The Americans and Soviets are about to sign a disarmament treaty to completely eliminate nuclear weapons, but elements within each country's military are vehemently opposed to such a plan and determined to stop it at all costs.

Plot

Gene Hackman stars as Johnny Gallagher, a Master Sergeant in the United States Army who is assigned to escort a prisoner named Thomas Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones) back to the United States. When Boyette escapes, Gallagher pursues him and discovers that Boyette is actually a professional assassin hired to kill the leader of the Soviet Union after a meeting in Chicago with the president of the United States. Gallagher is joined by his ex-wife Eileen, a lieutenant colonel in the US Army (Joanna Cassidy) and Chicago police Lt. Milan Delich (Dennis Franz).

Cast

• Gene Hackman as U.S. Army Sergeant Johnny Gallagher
• Joanna Cassidy as U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Gallagher
• Tommy Lee Jones as Thomas Boyette
• John Heard as U.S. Army Colonel Glen Whitacre
• Dennis Franz as Chicago Police Lieutenant Milan Delich
• Pam Grier as U.S. Army Lieutenant Ruth Butler
• Reni Santoni as Chicago Police Lieutenant
• Ike Pappas as himself

Production notes

Although the story takes place in Germany, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Virginia, and Chicago, Illinois, the film was shot entirely in Chicago and at the Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten).

External links

• The Package at the Internet Movie Database
• The Package at Rotten Tomatoes