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Plot summary
Richard Malone, a CIA operative specializing in assassination, resigns, disillusioned with the work and to his superiors' displeasure. He drives with no particular destination until the car gives out in a rural Oregon valley, and he pushes it to the service station and garage that Paul Barlow runs with his seventeen-year-old daughter Jo. Paul suggests towing the car sixty miles for repairs; Malone decides to wait for the parts and takes the spare room Paul offers. The two men trade stories of their Vietnam War service, and Jo goes through Malone's belongings, finding a handgun. Malone also sizes up the town, where Charles Delaney, a respectable-looking businessman, buys up property and presses owners who refuse to sell, and where his thugs block a bridge against Malone and Jo.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Malone (1987)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Burt Reynolds said that Gérard Depardieu and Christopher Lambert were at one point going to play Malone, and that the role was rewritten for him instead.
- Malone was made during a difficult period in Burt Reynolds' career: his last few films had flopped, there were rumors he had AIDS, and he was being sued for punching director Dick Richards on his previous film.
