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Shadow Conspiracy is a 1997 political thriller film starring Charlie Sheen and Linda Hamilton. Sam Waterston, famous for his role as a district attorney in Law & Order, appears in the film as the president of the United States. It is the final film directed by George P. Cosmatos, who died of lung cancer in 2005.
Plot
Set in Washington D.C., this film documents an attempted power grab by White House Chief of Staff Jacob Conrad (Donald Sutherland). Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is a special aide to the president, and finds out about a plot to assassinate the president from a former professor. Bobby's old professor is quickly murdered, and he is left to try and uncover the conspiracy on his own. He recruits his journalist friend Amanda Givens (Linda Hamilton) to help him uncover the mystery and stop the assassination.
The movie involves several chase scenes and a harrowingly close assassination attempt at the end.
Cast
Charlie Sheen as Bobby Bishop
Donald Sutherland as Jacob Conrad
Linda Hamilton as Amanda Givens
Stephen Lang as The Agent
Ben Gazzara as Vice President Saxon
Sam Waterston as The President
Nicholas Turturro as Grasso
Stanley Anderson as Atty. Gen. Toyanbee
Theodore Bikel as Prof. Yuri Pochenko
Paul Gleason as Blythe
Terry O'Quinn as Frank Ridell
Gore Vidal as Congressman Page
Dey Young as Janet
Marine One
When the US Secret Service would not allow the filmmakers to land their UH-1 Huey on the South Lawn, they used stock footage of the President's helicopter, Marine One, landing instead.
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