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Bridge of Spies (2015)

"In the shadow of war, one man showed the world what we stood for."
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👍 89%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 86%
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Runtime
2h 21m
Rated
PG-13
Country
United States of America, Germany
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.2/10 (7,199 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
81

Cast

Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan · 76% avg
Mark Rylance as Rudolf Abel · 72% avg
Amy Ryan as Mary Donovan · 68% avg
Alan Alda as Thomas Watters Jr. · 72% avg
Sebastian Koch as Wolfgang Vogel · 79% avg
Austin Stowell as Francis Gary Powers · 67% avg
Billy Magnussen as Doug Forrester · 66% avg
Michael Simon Hall as Reporter

Is Bridge of Spies good?

Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 86%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#87 / 2223 · Thriller
Rank in its year
#6 / 280 · 2015
Rank among its director's films
#6 / 35 · Steven Spielberg

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Bridge of Spies is a 2015 American historical legal thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay co-written by the Coen Brothers. Tom Hanks stars as James Donovan, a Brooklyn insurance lawyer who is recruited to defend Rudolf Abel, a captured Soviet spy played by Mark Rylance, during the height of Cold War tensions in 1957. When Donovan provides Abel a vigorous defense — earning public hostility for defending an enemy agent — and subsequently negotiates a prisoner exchange on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge, trading Abel for downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, Donovan finds himself navigating an impossible diplomatic situation that the CIA, the Soviet Union, and East Germany are all trying to manipulate.

Mark Rylance won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his quietly mesmerizing Abel, who responds to every escalation with the dry observation "Would it help?" — a performance of exquisite understatement. Tom Hanks's Donovan embodied American idealism at its finest — a man who insists on constitutional principles even when they are deeply unpopular. Bridge of Spies earned $165 million worldwide on a $40 million budget.

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In Bridge of Spies (2015), Stephen Spielberg pays tribute to Norman Rockwell, specifically his 1960 artwork ‘Triple Self-Portrait’.
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