Synopsis
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother.
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Cast
- Diane KeatonCharlie
- Yorgo VoyagisJoseph
- Klaus KinskiMartin Kurtz
- Sami FreyKhalil
- Eli DankerLitvak
- Thorley WaltersNed Quilley
- Anna MasseyChairlady
- Bill NighyAl
- Julian FirthYoung Man
- Dee SadlerDiana
Recommendations
- 90
Newsweek
Hill has never been better in shaping and pacing a movie that has the excitement, romance and resonance of the best popular art. [15 Oct 1984, p.118] - 88
Washington Post
Little Drummer Girl is the most trenchant, chilling vision of the psychological fallout of spying since Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation. - 63
Washington Post
Overall, this is a well-crafted, carefully paced, and appropriately cerebral work -- if the intention is to ape Le Carre's writing style, that is, and like the writer, de-glamorize the spy genre. If you're a fan of the style, this film will please. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The Little Drummer Girl lacks the two essential qualities it needs to work: It's not comprehensible, and it's not involving. - 50
The New York Times
What the film demonstrates most obviously is that when there is this much plot on the screen, there isn't time for actors to develop anything much in the way of plausibility of characterization. - 50
Variety
A disappointingly flat film adaptation of one of John Le Carre's top novels. - 50
Miami Herald
The great strength of Le Carre's novel was that it twisted the psyches of the characters as it tensed their muscles. This movie muscles through the action, but it takes the psychic tension out of the twists. [19 Oct 1984, p.D6] - 50
The New Yorker
The tragedy of these two peoples, killing each other because each has just claims to the same plot of ground, is presented with efficient, impersonal evenhandedness, so that we care about neither of them.
