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Patriot Games (1992)

★ 6.7 · 1,805 ratings on TMDB

Not for honor. Not for country. For his wife and child.

Patriot Games poster★ 6.7

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

DirectorPhillip Noyce
CastAnne Archer, Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones, James Fox, Patrick Bergin, Polly Walker
GenresAction, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Patriot Games keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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