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(1989 made-for-cable movie; originally aired 12/27/89 on USA)
An original movie for the USA cable network, Bruce Greenwood is top billed as Richard Berk, a disenchanted espionage agent, who wants out of a business he finds both distasteful and corrupt. Given a new face and a new identity, he begins a quiet life as an artist, far removed from the dangerous and covert world he once knew. But bored, and still in love with the wife who divorced him during his spy days, he searches her out and immediately realizes she's the subject of surveillance. Suspicious that "they" are actually after him, he rekindles both his relationship with his estranged spouse and his undercover talents to ferret out why the organization is now looking for him. Second billing in the film goes to Jameson Parker, a TV actor with more fame than Greenwood at the time, but he played the relatively small part of a man wooing the ex-wife in order to set Berk up when he contacted her. The ugly world of political subterfuge is balanced by a subplot involving Berk's volunteer work with a group of locally deprived children.
A very attractive hero with some of the same vulnerable qualities that made Greenwood's Nowhere Man so endearing, it was similarly filmed in Portland and even uses the same actor as loveable villain - Michael Tucker. Michael Thoma, the man who plays Richard Berk before his face is changed, is a friend of Greenwood's from Vancouver though Bruce Greenwood himself does the voiceover for the character.
A fairly accessible title, Spy has long been available on video and is repeated often on cable stations.
Trimark Pictures in association with Vidmark Entertainment
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Richard breaks into his ex-wife's home to warn her
| 3 min 31 secs |
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Richard Berk explains Thomas Ludlow's war crime
| 1 min 33 secs |
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Richard confronts Tony Cooper
| 1 min 34 secs |
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Richard tells Angela what he's going to do
| 31 secs |