Additional information for Ronin, which has a domestic theatrical release set for September 25, 1998. The film is being distributed by United Artists and has not yet been rated. Ronin has a total running time of 122 minutes.
13
Argentina
MA
Australia
KT
Belgium
14A
Canada
K-16
Finland
U
France
16
Germany
15
Ireland
T
Italy
15
Norway
14
Peru
M/12
Portugal
PG13
Singapore
15
South Korea
13
Spain
15
Sweden
12
Switzerland
15
UK
16
Iceland
15
Denmark
12
Netherlands
R
USA
14
Brazil
M
New Zealand
122min
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A freelancing former US intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by both the Irish and the Russians.
In a Montmartre, Paris café, an Irish woman named Deirdre (Natascha McElhone) meets five men, taking them to a warehouse and briefing them on a mission. The men, Spence (Sean Bean), Larry (Skipp Sudduth), Gregor (Stellan Skarsgård), Vincent (Jean Reno) and Sam (Robert De Niro), are all former Special Forces soldiers or intelligence operatives now working as mercenaries. The team are planning to attack a heavily-armed convoy and steal a suitcase, its contents unknown (a MacGuffin). Following the briefing, the team begins assembling their equipment. Deirdre meets with her handler Seamus (Jonathan Pryce), who reveals that Russian gangsters are bidding for the case and that the team must act quickly to intercept it. Later at the warehouse, Spence is exposed as a fraud and is summarily released from the team, who then depart for Nice, where for the next several days they observe the convoy and plan an ambush. During their surveillance, Deirdre and Sam pose as husband and wife and grow somewhat close. The team engages the convoy and pursues the survivors through the surrounding highways in the country. After a lengthy car chase and gun battle, they successfully obtain the case, but Gregor betrays the team and switches the case with another, identical case that explodes, seriously injuring Larry. Gregor disappears.Gregor attempts to sell the case to the Russians but when his contact pulls a gun, he shoots the Russian contact and kills him. Gregor contacts Mikhi, the leader of the Russians and threatens to sell the case to the Irish unless Mikhi pays a grossly inflated price for it, which Mikhi agrees to. Meanwhile, the rest of the team track Gregor through one of Sam's old CIA contacts and corner him in the Roman arena in Arles, where he is meeting the Russians. A tense standoff and hectic gun fight follows as Diedre, Sam, and Vincent attempt to capture Gregor while the Russians try to kill them. In the melee that follows, Gregor escapes the coliseum. As he runs from the arena, he is intercepted and captured by Seamus, who has already killed Larry. They escape with Deirdre at the wheel just as Sam and Vincent emerge from the coliseum. Vincent takes Sam, who was seriously wounded by a bullet through his left side during the fight, to his friend Jean-Pierre (Michael Lonsdale) in a villa in rural France. Vincent removes the bullet and allows Sam a day or two to recuperate. Vincent asks Jean-Pierre to help him locate Gregor, Dierdre and Seamus. Meanwhile, in a Paris slum, Seamus learns that Gregor has mailed the case to himself at a post office in Paris. Seamus and Deirdre escort Gregor to the post office where they retrieve the case, and they are ambushed by Vincent and Sam. Sam, feeling a bit of closeness with Deirdre, hesitates when he could have stopped her escape by shooting her; She gets away. and picks up Seamus and Gregor. During the high-speed chase that follows, they drive the wrong way against traffic and through the streets and tunnels of Paris. Vincent finally shoots out one of Deirdre's tires. The care crashes and falls over the unfinished end of a highway overpass. Construction workers pull the three from the car shortly before it explodes, but Gregor once again escapes with the case.Vincent and Sam, considering their options, discover that the case is identical to one used by figure skaters. Intelligence gleaned from Jean-Pierre's contacts also suggest the Russians are involved with figure skater Natacha Kirilova (Katarina Witt), a protégé of Mikhi, who is performing in a show at the local arena that night. Vincent and Sam appear at the arena as Mikhi, already there with Natacha, receives a call from Gregor, who demands to meet in a backstage dressing room. At the meeting, Mikhi exchanges money for the case when Gregor, prepared to leave, reveals that he has positioned a sniper somewhere in the arena that will shoot Natacha if Gregor is betrayed. Mikhi shoots Gregor anyway, and Natacha is also killed. Mikhi and his bodyguard leave the arena with both the case and his money., blending in with the panicked crowd fleeing the arena. Vincent and Sam follow the crowd out of the arena in time to see Seamus, disguised as an arena security guard, ambush and shoot Mikhi and his bodyguard before stealing the case. Sam runs ahead of Seamus and finds Deirdre sitting in the getaway car, where he encourages her to leave. He reveals that he is after Seamus, not her. Deirdre hesitates and asks him to leave with her, but he refuses, and she flees, leaving Seamus. Seamus' exit is blocked by the crowds. Sam and Vincent confront Seamus, but are momentarily distracted by the security guards, and Seamus shoots Vincent. He escapes through the crowd back into the arena building. Sam pursues him. Seamus wounds Sam and is about to kill him when Vincent opens fire from scaffolding above the arena, killing Seamus before collapsing from his own wounds.Some time later a BBC radio broadcast reveals that, as a result of stability resulting from the death of the terrorist Seamus, a peace agreement has been reached between Sinn Féin and the British. Sam and Vincent share a drink in the same Montmartre café from the first scene. Vincent tells Sam that Diedre will not be returning to the cafe. He asks Sam what was in the case. Sam replies, "I don't remember." They part as friends and Sam drives off with his CIA contact. Vincent disappears up a staircase into the wintry streets of Paris.
John Frankenheimer
Director(s)
J.D. Zeik
J.D. Zeik
David Mamet
Writer(s)
Paul Kelmenson
executive producer
Frank Mancuso Jr.
producer
Ethel Winant
associate producer
Producer(s)
Elia Cmiral
Composer(s)
Sam
Robert De Niro
Vincent
Jean Reno
Deirdre
Natascha McElhone
Gregor
Stellan Skarsgård
Spence
Sean Bean
Larry
Skipp Sudduth
Jean-Pierre
Michael Lonsdale
Dapper Gent
Jan Tríska
Seamus O'Rourke
Jonathan Pryce
Man with the Newspaper
Ron Perkins
Mikhi
Féodor Atkine
Natacha Kirilova
Katarina Witt
Sergi
Bernard Bloch
Clown Ice Skater
Dominic Gugliametti
Clown Ice Skater
Alan Beckworth
Sergi's Accomplice
Daniel Breton
Man at Exchange (as Amidou Ben Messaoud)
Amidou
The 'Boss'
Tolsty
Tour Guide (as Gérard Moulevrier)
Gérard Moulévrier
The 'Target'
Lionel Vitrant
Arles Messenger
Vincent Schmitt
Arles Little Girl
Léopoldine Serre
Arles Little Girl
Lou Maraval
German Tour Guide
Frédéric Schmalzbauer
Girl Hostage
Julia Maraval
Tourist in Nice
Laurent Spielvogel
Fishmonger (scenes deleted) (as Ron Hiatt)
Ron Jeremy
Waiter in Nice
Steve Suissa
Woman Hostage
Katia Tchenko
Little Screaming Girl
Dyna Gauzy
Little Girl
Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux
Little Girl
Amanda Spencer
Russian Interpreter
Dimitri Rafalsky
Russian Mechanic
Vladimir Tchernine
Ice Rink Security Guard
Gérard Touratier
Mikhi's Bodyguard
Cyril Prentout
Bartender
Henry Moati
Armed Police Officer
Christophe Maratier
CRS Captain
Pierre Forest
Weapon seller (uncredited)
Nader Boussandel
Ronin
No theatrical release dates have been decided.
Director(s)
J.D. Zeik
David Mamet
Writer(s)
executive producer
Frank Mancuso Jr.
producer
Ethel Winant
associate producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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