Directed by:
Brian De PalmaScreenplay:
John FarrisCinematography:
Richard H. KlineComposer:
John WilliamsCast:
Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, Amy Irving, Fiona Lewis, Andrew Stevens, Dennis Franz, Rutanya Alda, William Finley (more)Plots(1)
An elaborate game of mind control begins when a government agent's son is kidnapped for his psychokinetic powers. Desperate to find him, the father hires a girl with similar psychic abilities. She soon reveals that his son is a prisoner at a secret U.S. agency where he's being used for dangerous mind experiments- and programmed for elimination. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Kirk Douglas
USA
Best movies:
Paths of Glory (1957)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Lust for Life (1956)
John Cassavetes
USA
Best movies:
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Carrie Snodgress
USA
Best movies:
Easy Rider (1969)
Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
Pale Rider (1985)
Charles Durning
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Tootsie (1982)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Amy Irving
USA
Best movies:
Traffic (2000)
The Far Pavilions (1984) (series)
Yentl (1983)
Fiona Lewis
UK
Best movies:
Innerspace (1987)
Drum (1976)
Joanna (1968)
Andrew Stevens
USA
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
Miracle on Ice (1981) (TV movie)
The Boys in Company C (1978)
Dennis Franz
USA
Best movies:
The Simpsons: Dark Secrets (1998) (video compilation)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
The Player (1992)
Rutanya Alda
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
You Don't Know Jack (2010) (TV movie)
William Finley
USA
Best movies:
Sisters (1972)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Wise Blood (1979)
Daryl Hannah
USA
Best movies:
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Sense8 (2015) (series)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Laura Innes
USA
Best movies:
And the Band Played On (1993) (TV movie)
Deep Impact (1998)
The Fury (1978)
Jim Belushi
USA
Best movies:
Trading Places (1983)
Salvador (1986)
Palermo Connection (1990)
Melody Thomas Scott
USA
Best movies:
The Beguiled (1971)
Marnie (1964)
The Shootist (1976)
J. Patrick McNamara
USA
Best movies:
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Gross Anatomy (1989)
Carol Eve Rossen
USA
Best movies:
The Arrangement (1969)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
The Fury (1978)
Marland Proctor
USA
Best movies:
Dixie Dynamite (1976)
The Fury (1978)
Hilarie Thompson
USA
Best movies:
The Falls (1980) - narrator
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
The Fury (1978)
Gordon Jump
USA
Best movies:
Sybil (1976) (TV movie)
House Calls (1978)
The Fury (1978)
Marshall Colt
USA
Best movies:
North Dallas Forty (1979)
Jagged Edge (1985)
Flowers in the Attic (1987)