Little Nikita

Little Nikita (1988)

Timing: 1:38 (98 min)

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• When Roy hands his driver's license to Jeff, you can notice the date of birth – August 23, 1970. This is the birthday of River Phoenix, who played the main role in the film.
• Filming period: December 29, 1986 – April 11, 1987.
• When David Puttnam, the new head of Columbia Pictures, first saw this film, he told director Richard Benjamin that it was one of the worst films he had ever laid eyes on. He even asked editor Jim Clark (1931-2016) if anything could be done to save it.
• Although this was not known at the time of the film's release, it later emerged that there were indeed 'sleeper' agents of Soviet intelligence operating in the United States, employing the so-called method of 'hiding in plain sight.' Some even had children, went to work, and had friends and neighbors who suspected nothing. In 2010, a group of 'illegals' was arrested and subsequently exchanged for several Americans detained for espionage in Russia.
• When Roy hands his driver's license to Jeff, you can notice the date of birth – August 23, 1970. This is the date of birth of River Phoenix, who played the main role in the film.