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The Package (1989)
Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones
Directed by Andrew Davis
Smartly written, sharply played, and directed at a crackling pace that never sacrifices clarity for speed, The Package is an enormously satisfying political thriller. Poised and professional as ever, Gene Hackman is perfectly cast as a career army officer escorting a troublesome soldier (Tommy Lee Jones) Stateside to stand trial. When this "package" (the military term for a person being delivered) takes a powder, Hackman visits the man's estranged wife -- and soon realizes the package is posing as someone he's not. (Variety)