The Secret Agent (1996 film)

The Secret Agent
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Directed by	Christopher Hampton
Written by	Christopher Hampton
Based on	The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Starring	Bob Hoskins Patricia Arquette Gérard Depardieu Christian Bale
Cinematography	Denis Lenoir
Edited by	George Akers
Music by	Philip Glass
Production companies	Fox Searchlight Pictures Capitol Films
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	8 November 1996 (1996-11-08)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$106,606

The Secret Agent is a 1996 British drama-thriller film written and directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Bob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette. It is adapted from Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel of the same name.^[1]^[2]

Plot

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Cast

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Bob Hoskins as Verloc
Patricia Arquette as Winnie
Gérard Depardieu as Ossipon
Christian Bale as Stevie
Jim Broadbent as Chief Inspector Heat
Eddie Izzard as Vladimir
Ralph Nossek as Yundt
Elizabeth Spriggs as Winnie's mother
Peter Vaughan as the Driver
Julian Wadham as the Assistant Commissioner
Robin Williams as the Professor (uncredited)

Release

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The film opened on 8 November 1996 in New York and Los Angeles on 6 screens and grossed $22,401 in its opening weekend.^[3]^[4]

Reception

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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 50%, based on reviews from 10 critics.^[5] On Metacritic, it also has a score of 41 out of 100, based on reviews from 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[6]

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References

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^ Mark Deming. "The Secret Agent (1996) - Christopher Hampton - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
^ Vagg, Stephen (25 March 2023). "A Brief History of Hitchcock Remakes". Filmink.
^ "Weekend openers". Daily Variety. 8 November 1996. p. 3.
^ Roman, Monica (12 November 1996). "'Swingers' lights up the coastal B.O.". Daily Variety. p. 6.
^ "Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Agent' (1996)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
^ "The Secret Agent". Metacritic. Retrieved 16 April 2021.

External links

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The Secret Agent at IMDb
The Secret Agent at Box Office Mojo

v t e Christopher Hampton
Films written and directed	Carrington (1995) The Secret Agent (1996) Imagining Argentina (2003)
Films written only	A Doll's House (1973) Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979) The Honorary Consul (1983) The Good Father (1985) The Wolf at the Door (1986) Hotel du Lac (1986) Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Total Eclipse (1995) Mary Reilly (1996) The Quiet American (2002) Atonement (2007) Chéri (2009) A Dangerous Method (2011) The Thirteenth Tale (2013) Adoration (2013) Ali and Nino (2016) The Father (2020) The Son (2022)
TV series created	The History Man (1981) The Ginger Tree (1989) The Singapore Grip (2020)
Plays	The Philanthropist Savages Treats Tales from Hollywood Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Musical productions	Sunset Boulevard Dracula, the Musical Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox The Trial Rebecca Stephen Ward

v t e Philip Glass
List of compositions
Compositions	Music in Twelve Parts Glassworks String Quartet No. 2 (Company) String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak) The Light Passages Itaipu Songs from Liquid Days Aguas da Amazonia
Operas	Einstein on the Beach Satyagraha The Photographer Akhnaten The Civil Wars The Juniper Tree The Fall of the House of Usher The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1000 Airplanes on the Roof Hydrogen Jukebox The Voyage Orphée Les Enfants terribles La Belle et la Bête Monsters of Grace White Raven In the Penal Colony Galileo Galilei The Sound of a Voice Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox Kepler The Perfect American The Trial
Symphonies	No. 1 (Low) No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 ("Heroes") No. 5 (Choral) No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) No. 7 (Toltec) No. 8 No. 9 No. 10 No. 11 No. 12 (Lodger)
Concertos	Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tirol) Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) Harpsichord Concerto Violin Concerto (withdrawn) Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2 (American Four Seasons) Cello Concerto No. 1 Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra
Film scores	Dracula (1999)
Related articles	Philip Glass Ensemble Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts Minimal music Robert Wilson Dennis Russell Davies David Henry Hwang Godfrey Reggio Errol Morris La Monte Young Steve Reich Terry Riley Kronos Quartet Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread
Category

v t e Joseph Conrad (works)
Novels and novellas	Almayer's Folly An Outcast of the Islands The Nigger of the "Narcissus" Heart of Darkness The End of the Tether Lord Jim The Inheritors Typhoon Falk Romance Nostromo The Secret Agent Under Western Eyes Freya of the Seven Isles Chance Victory The Shadow Line The Arrow of Gold The Rescue The Nature of a Crime The Rover Suspense
Short stories	"The Idiots" "An Outpost of Progress" "The Lagoon" "Karain: a Memory" "Youth" "Amy Foster" "The Secret Sharer" "Because of the Dollars" "The Tale"
Other works	The Inheritors (1901) Romance (1903) A Personal Record Last Essays
Adaptations	Victory (1919) Lord Jim (1925) The Silver Treasure (1926) Dangerous Paradise (1930) Sabotage (1936) Victory (1940) Outcast of the Islands (1951) Lord Jim (1965) The Rover (1967) The Duellists (1977) Apocalypse Now (1979) The Secret Agent (1992) Heart of Darkness (1993) Victory (1996) The Secret Agent (1996) Nostromo (1997 TV) Gabrielle (2005) Almayer's Folly (2011) Spec Ops: The Line (2012 video game) Hanyut (2014) Secret Sharer (2014) The Secret Agent (2016) The Young One (2016)
Related	Apollo Korzeniowski (father) Joseph Conrad's career at sea Joseph Conrad (ship)

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v t e Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1907)
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TV series	The Secret Agent (1992) The Secret Agent (2016)