Product Details

• Actors: Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Kurtwood Smith, Terry O'Quinn, Daniel von Bargen
• Directors: Nicholas Meyer
• Writers: Nicholas Meyer
• Producers: Dirk Petersmann, Steven-Charles Jaffe
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: December 1, 1993
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302374650
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #307,571 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well "I" liked it!, September 26, 2001

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Pat (Austin, TX, United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Company Business [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After the one star review, I'm feeling kind of stupid. I enjoy this movie. (Present tense. I have a videotape from TV or someplace that I watch occasionally). I'd like to get it on DVD for my RV collection. I like the larger than life characters. One guy makes a statement at the very beginning about Hackman's character, "I hate these old guys. They're always thinking," or something to that effect. Multiply it by two old guys, and it turns into fun. The has-been look they give to the participants, from the Saudi financier-money launderer, who has even been forced to sell the gold fixtures in his bathroom to survive, to the documents forger in a dingy loft adds to the tongue-in-cheek spy atmosphere. The US and Soviet agents chasing the Hackman and Baryshnikov characters have to go way back in their computer histories to find logical accomplices to catch the "old guys." Great stuff.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable & great teaming, November 15, 2002

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Ravyn (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Company Business (DVD)

Yes, this "Company Business" is a bit hokey and implausible, but I enjoyed it for the one time teaming of Gene Hackman with Mikhail Baryshnikov. Hackman is right in his element and delivers a solid performance. Baryshnikov is also quite good in one of the few if only film roles where he isn't a dancer. The plot isn't a total dud by any means and has a lot of twists and turns (even if you don't want to examine any of this too closely) along with a least one double-cross, which keeps it moving along and kept me guessing the outcome the first time I saw it. But hey, what James Bond plot is plausible either so I think this is a film you really tune in to see first and foremost because you like the stars and want to see the two of them. But if you don't like Hackman or Baryshnikov, then don't waste your time.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An old-school "cold war" spy-classics with humour and style!, July 16, 2007

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padla99 (Moscow, Russia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Company Business (DVD)

I find this film amazing for some reasons. First of all these are the characters played by Hackman and Baryshnikov. A cynical retired CIA-agent and an arrogant KGB-agent. Rather trite stereotypes. But they are played as perfect and naturally as it is possible! I think, both actors were born to play this couple. Also very good are the performers of minor characters like the Arabian weapons dealer or the CIA-people. Second reason are the dialogues between the main characters. The third thing that makes the movie outstanding is the shown atmosphere of Berlin and Europe right after the Cold War end. I lived there at that time and it is for me like a nostalgic home video :-). The script is a bit silly, but it is a tradition for "USSR vs. USA" spy films. I think it is a classic old-school "cold war" movie with two brilliant main heroes.