The Secret Agent (1996 film)

The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent
	DVD cover
Directed by	Christopher Hampton
Written by	Christopher Hampton
Based on	The Secret Agent; by Joseph Conrad
Starring	Bob Hoskins; Patricia Arquette; Gérard Depardieu; Christian Bale;
Cinematography	Denis Lenoir
Edited by	George Akers
Music by	Philip Glass
Production; company	Capitol Films
Distributed by	Fox Searchlight Pictures; 20th Century Fox
Release date	8 November 1996;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$106,606

The Secret Agent is a 1996 British drama-thriller film written and directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Bob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette. It is adapted from Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel of the same name.^[1]

Cast[]

Bob Hoskins as Verloc
Patricia Arquette as Winnie
Gérard Depardieu as Ossipon
Christian Bale as Stevie
Jim Broadbent as Chief Inspector Heat
Eddie Izzard as Vladimir
Ralph Nossek as Yundt
Elizabeth Spriggs as Winnie's mother
Peter Vaughan as the Driver
Julian Wadham as the Assistant Commissioner
Robin Williams as the Professor, a seller of explosives

Reception[]

The film currently holds a 50% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[2] At Metacritic, it also has a Metascore of 41, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[3]

References[]

^ Mark Deming. "The Secret Agent (1996) - Christopher Hampton - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
^ "Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Agent' (1996)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
^ "The Secret Agent". Metacritic. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

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[1] Mark Deming. "The Secret Agent (1996) - Christopher Hampton - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.

[2] "Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Agent' (1996)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

[3] "The Secret Agent". Metacritic. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

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Films directed	Carrington (1995) The Secret Agent (1996) Imagining Argentina (2003)
Films written	A Doll's House (1973) Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979) The Honorary Consul (1983) The Good Father (1985) The Wolf at the Door (1986) Hotel du Lac (1986) Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Total Eclipse (1995) Mary Reilly (1996) The Quiet American (2002) Atonement (2007) Chéri (2009) A Dangerous Method (2011) The Thirteenth Tale (2013) Ali and Nino (2016) The Father (2020)
TV series created	The Ginger Tree (1989) The Singapore Grip (2020)
Plays	Savages Treats Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Musical productions	Sunset Boulevard Dracula, the Musical Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox Rebecca Stephen Ward

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Novels and novellas	Almayer's Folly An Outcast of the Islands The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' Heart of Darkness Lord Jim The Inheritors Typhoon Romance Nostromo The Secret Agent Under Western Eyes Chance Victory The Shadow Line The Arrow of Gold The Rescue The Nature of a Crime The Rover
Short stories	"The Idiots" "An Outpost of Progress" "The Lagoon" "Youth" "Amy Foster" "The Secret Sharer"
Other works	The Inheritors (1901) Romance (1903) A Personal Record Last Essays
Adaptations	Victory (1919) Lord Jim (1925) The Silver Treasure (1926) Dangerous Paradise (1930) Sabotage (1936) Victory (1940) Outcast of the Islands (1951) Lord Jim (1965) The Rover (1967) The Duellists (1977) Apocalypse Now (1979) Heart of Darkness (1993) Victory (1996) The Secret Agent (1996) Nostromo (1997 TV) Gabrielle (2005) Almayer's Folly (2011) Spec Ops: The Line (2012 video game) Hanyut (2014) Secret Sharer (2014) The Secret Agent (1992) The Secret Agent (2016) The Young One (2016)
Related	Apollo Korzeniowski (father) Joseph Conrad's career at sea Joseph Conrad (ship)

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General	WorldCat (via Library of Congress)
National libraries	United States

The Secret Agent (1996 film)

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