Starring Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton
Directed by John Schlesinger
Based on true life incident, The Falcon and the Snowman is a tale of espionage about two upper-middle class kids who, in 1977, became spies for the Soviet Union. Disillusioned with the American government, a drop-out seminary student, Christopher Boyce (Hutton), begins stealing classified information from his workplace. With the help of his boyhood friend, strung-out cocaine addict Daulton Lee (Penn), Boyce begins selling government secrets to the Soviets, with disastrous results.