The Sum of All Fears is a 2002 American action film directed by Phil Alden Robinson and based on a book of the same name by Tom Clancy. It was originally filmed in 1999, starring Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman and was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on May 31, 2002.
The film begins with a sequence inspired by the novel's prologue set during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which a single Israeli A-4 jet carrying a nuclear weapon is...
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The Sum of All Fears is a 2002 American action film directed by Phil Alden Robinson and based on a book of the same name by Tom Clancy. It was originally filmed in 1999, starring Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman and was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on May 31, 2002.
The film begins with a sequence inspired by the novel's prologue set during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which a single Israeli A-4 jet carrying a nuclear weapon is shot down over the Syrian desert. The bomb, over time, is consumed by the sand and disappears.
The film narrative then shifts forward 29 years and inside a secret government bunker in Mount Weather, Virginia, where President J. Robert Fowler (James Cromwell) and some of his senior national security advisors, including Central Intelligence Agency Director William Cabot (Morgan Freeman), are conducting a top-secret wargame, simulating a Russian nuclear attack against the United States.
In 2002, the bomb is found in Syria by a couple of scrap...
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