- Actors: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Bradford, Richard Lynch, Caroline Kava
- Directors: Richard Benjamin
- Format: PAL, Dolby, Colour
- Language English
- Classification: 15
- Studio: RCA/Columbia Pictures
- Run Time: 93 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000LVMJA2
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,031 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Synopsis
An FBI agent (Sidney Poitier) must protect the American son (River Phoenix) of two undercover Soviet spies.
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Little Nikita is a taut espionage thriller about a clean-cut all American teenager (River Phoenix,- Stand By Me, Sneakers, The Thing Called Love)who is shocek to discover that his parents are actually Russian spies and are in America for one purpose only..to act as sleepers, waiting for the day a phone call tells them to attack a vital target, or carry out an assassination deep inside America. With his life now in danger can FBI Agent (Sidney Poitier, - To Sir with Love, In The Heat Of The Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner) get to him first and maybe stop the Cold war from starting all over again.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Sidney Poitier and River Phoenix.
A teenage boy has to come to terms with the truth that his parents have been living a lie, they are in fact Russian sleeper agents. A new twist on parent-child conflict in a coming of age film. Agent Sidney Poitier helps Phoenix come to accept the truth and deal with the consequences.
To say the America-Russia paranoia thing is old is an understatement, but it did provide the basis for a mountain of books, films and drama, (Le Carre's Smiley's People etc). Phoenix is convincing in the role and in his emotions.
A teenage boy has to come to terms with the truth that his parents have been living a lie, they are in fact Russian sleeper agents. A new twist on parent-child conflict in a coming of age film. Agent Sidney Poitier helps Phoenix come to accept the truth and deal with the consequences.
To say the America-Russia paranoia thing is old is an understatement, but it did provide the basis for a mountain of books, films and drama, (Le Carre's Smiley's People etc). Phoenix is convincing in the role and in his emotions.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Poitier and River Phoenix should be good for a masterpiece, but this film is badly directed and made into a slow and dull spy story. The boy Phoenix is certainly beautiful but is made to overact here. Poitier is held in overlong closeups and apparently told to move his eyes about. Not very exciting. One of the villains is shot in the heart and drops to the ground, but then, like most film villains, gets up and runs about and is still chippy at the end. Nothing is very realistic. For the climax, the boy and his spy parents get lovey-dovey and walk away arm in arm. Not into the sunset. A cop then says to the FBI agent 'Same old same old', and he replies 'Same old same old.' Dazzling dialogue, eh? - but not a bad description of the film.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The movie follows a young boy (Phoenix) being confronted with the fact that his parents are sleeper agents - this latter fact being hammered home by Poitier.
The acting is generally of a good quality and all the figures seem reasonably convincing. However the story upon which the movie is based is weak to say the least. It looks like a complete layman's interpretation of the cold war conflict and how the various parties would behave. The little details, such as the border crossings, interactions between agents etc. are all wrong, and not particularly believable to boot.
While it is not painful to watch, it is also not enriching, superbly entertaining, or enlightening.
The acting is generally of a good quality and all the figures seem reasonably convincing. However the story upon which the movie is based is weak to say the least. It looks like a complete layman's interpretation of the cold war conflict and how the various parties would behave. The little details, such as the border crossings, interactions between agents etc. are all wrong, and not particularly believable to boot.
While it is not painful to watch, it is also not enriching, superbly entertaining, or enlightening.
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Lovely Little Nikita!
I will be honest the story line for this film is not to my taste more for those who like action and police dramas. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Hayley Blondiee Shannon
Little nikita
Was a good movie difficult to follow storyline.But good acting.All characters try their best.Good scenery.
Seem to be distracted when i try to watch.
Good start.... Read more
Seem to be distracted when i try to watch.
Good start.... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Alison
I really enjoyed this film
Yes I really enjoyed this film so 5 stars. I agree that the direction and acting perhaps are not the best - but the story held my interest. Read more
Published 24 months ago by "Smith" Reader
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