Enemy of the State

Genre: Thriller

Worldwide gross$251M

Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) is a mild-mannered lawyer who works in Washington, D.C. He is on the trail of a kingpin named Paulie Pintero (Tom Sizemore). Meanwhile, a politician named Thomas Brian Reynolds (Jon Voight) is negotiating with Representative Phillip Hammersley (Jason Robards, Jr.) about a new surveillance system with satellites. But, Hammersley declines; Reynolds has Hammersley killed, but the murder is caught on tape, and the taper is chased by Reynolds' team of N.S.A. Agents. The guy must ditch the tape, so he plants it on Dean (unbeknownst to Dean). Then, the N.S.A. decides to get into Dean's life. That is when Dean's life began to fall apart all around him, with his wife and job both gone. Dean wants to find out what is going on. Then, he meets a man named "Brill" (Gene Hackman), who tells him that Dean has something that the government wants. Dean and Brill formulate a plan to get Dean's life back and turn the tables on Reynolds.

🏆 5 wins & 16 nominations total

Genres

Action, Thriller

Director

Tony Scott

Cast

Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight

Released

20 November 1998

Runtime

2h 12m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

7.3 / 10

Votes

272,421

Metascore

67

Rotten Tomatoes

71%

Box office

$111,549,836

Budget

$90,000,000

Edition

Base