Release Date
March 19, 2021 (Limited)
Digital Date
April 16, 2021 (Premium VOD)
DVD Release Date
June 1, 2021 (Buy on Amazon)
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Running Time
111 minutes
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for violence, partial nudity, brief strong language, and smoking throughout
THE COURIER is the true story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Cumberbatch)
recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK's MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.
MOVIE REVIEW
Director Dominic Cooke’s last film was On Chesil Beach, a movie so dull I couldn’t sit through the whole thing. Writer Tom O’Conner’s? The Hitman’s Bodyguard, a movie that I found instantly forgettable. What a difference a few years makes. These two men have come together to create The Courier, a splendidly engrossing spy thriller powered by a head-turning performance by Benedict Cumberbatch.
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