Absolute Power is a 1997 American political thriller produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood as a thief who witnesses a murder. The screenplay by William Goldman is based on the 1996 novel of the same name written by David Baldacci. It was screened out of competition at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
The story describes a conflict that arises after a burglar witnesses Secret Service agents killing the beautiful young wife of an elderly billionaire during her drunken rendezvous with the fictional President of the United States. The burglar is Luther Whitney (Eastwood), a master jewel thief. The President is Alan Richmond (Hackman), a known philanderer. The billionaire is Richmond's friend and financial supporter Walter Sullivan (Marshall), and his wife is Christy (Hardin). Luther has a daughter, Kate (Linney), who works as a prosecutor and has been estranged from him for years.
Luther breaks into Sullivan's mansion while the Sullivan family is on vacation, but Christy and Richmond interrupt him as he robs the house, Christy having asked her family to go without her. Luther hides behind a one-way mirror and watches as they begin a sexual encounter. When Richmond slaps Christy and tries to strangle her, she attacks him with a letter opener, he yells for help, and Secret Service agents Bill Burton (Glenn) and Tim Collin (Haysbert) shoot her to death. They and Chief of Staff Gloria Russell (Davis) then make the scene appear as if a burglar killed her. Luther escapes with some valuables and the bloody letter opener.
Air Force One 1997 DVD
Air Force One is a 1997 American action film written by Andrew W. Marlowe and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, director of In the Line of Fire. It stars Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, and Glenn Close, and also features Wendy Crewson, Xander Berkeley, William H. Macy and Paul Guilfoyle.
With cooperation of American forces through the United States President James Marshall (Harrison Ford), American special forces are able to capture the tyrannical dictator of Kazakhstan, General Alexander Radek (Jürgen Prochnow). Before returning to the United States on Air Force One, Marshall makes a speech in Moscow and deems the operation a new offensive against terrorism. Having visited the Red Cross camps and seen the brutality and atrocities committed under Radek's regime, Marshall vows to continue the offensive against the terrorists, stating that the U.S will never negotiate with terrorists and boldly declares "your day is over."
The flight back to Washington starts off smoothly, but soon neo-nationalist terrorists who are supportive of Radek, led by Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman) and posing as a Russian news crew (who are later found murdered), take control of the plane with help from a mole in the Secret Service, Agent Gibbs (Xander Berkeley). Marshall is rushed to an escape pod in the plane's cargo hold, but he refuses to leave, hiding behind the machinery when the pod is launched, leading Korshunov to believe that the President is no longer aboard.
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