Shadow Conspiracy

Shadow Conspiracy Information

Shadow Conspiracy is a 1997 political thriller film starring Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland 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 to 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.

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

Reception

The film received extremely negative reviews from critics with Rotten Tomatoes giving this a film a rare 0% rating based on 28 reviews. Shadow Conspiracy was a gigantic flop at the box office, grossing less than $2 million domestically and was soon pulled from theaters due to lack of publicity.

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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