Company Business (1991) on Netflix
PG-1319911h 38mActionComedyCrime
Retired CIA operative Sam Boyd is called back to escort jailed KGB mole Pyotr Ivanovich Grushenko to Berlin for a prisoner exchange. The agency keeps the job off the books.
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Plot summary
With the Cold War winding down, Sam Boyd, a retired CIA operative, works as a corporate spy for the cosmetics firm Maxine Gray, where his hands-on tradecraft is being overtaken by younger computer hackers. His old superior Elliot Jaffe reactivates him for a prisoner swap with the KGB supervised by Colonel Pierce Grissom. To keep the deal off the books the agency cannot use an active agent, and a Colombian drug cartel has put up the extra two million dollars the Russians demanded. Boyd is to accompany Pyotr Ivanovich Grushenko, a KGB mole jailed ten years earlier, and a briefcase of cash to Berlin. There the Russians are to hand over Benjamin Sobel, an American pilot whose U-2 was brought down over the Soviet Union in the 1960s, in return for Grushenko.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Company Business (1991)
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- With the Berlin Wall collapsing, Meyer was forced to finish his screenplay in a rush and the film went into preproduction before the updates were done. Gene Hackman, exhausted from shooting Postcards from the Edge, Narrow Margin and Class Action back to back, tried to back out two weeks before production but stayed on fearing a lawsuit from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
- The working title was Dinosaurs, after a restaurant scene, left in the finished film, in which a young woman calls the two main characters dinosaurs because CIA and KGB agents are no longer needed after the Cold War. The title was dropped once it emerged that Walt Disney Studios had registered it.
