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Avenger

Avenger

No peace without justice...

20065.91h 32m

Overview

After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard 'Ricky' Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds. Ricky for a private Canadian war victims charity in Bosnia and went missing. Dexter discovers Ricky was beaten to pulp and drowned for no other crime then helping street boys from the other side by Zoran Zilic and his Serbian paramilitary 'order'. He offers Steven to 'finish the job' as such war criminals don't go to trial. But deputy CIA director Paul Devereaux cares only for a nuclear arms project he wants to use Zilic for. So CIA troubleshooter Frank McBride is ordered to protect him and handle Dexter.

Directed by Robert Markowitz
Written by Alan Sharp, Frederick Forsyth
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Top Cast

Sam Elliott

Sam Elliott

Calvin Dexter

Timothy Hutton

Timothy Hutton

Frank McBride

James Cromwell

James Cromwell

Paul Devereaux

William Hope

William Hope

Stephen Edmonds

David Hayman

David Hayman

Zoran Zilic

Jamie Bartlett

Jamie Bartlett

Van Rensburg

Lucy Russell

Lucy Russell

Curtis

Jacqueline Chan

Jacqueline Chan

Madame Huong (as Jacqui Chan)

Antonio David Lyons

Antonio David Lyons

Washington Lee

Themes & Keywords

central intelligence agency (cia)justice

About Avenger

Avenger is a tv movie, action, thriller film released in 2006 exploring themes of central intelligence agency (cia), justice. Directed by Robert Markowitz, it stars Sam Elliott, Timothy Hutton, James Cromwell. After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard 'Ricky' Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds. Ricky for a private Canadian war victims charity in Bosnia and went missing. Dexter discovers Ricky was beaten to pulp and drowned for no other crime then helping street boys from the other side by Zoran Zilic and his Serbian paramilitary 'order'. He offers Steven to 'finish the job' as such war criminals don't go to trial. But deputy CIA director Paul Devereaux cares only for a nuclear arms project he wants to use Zilic for. So CIA troubleshooter Frank McBride is ordered to protect him and handle Dexter.

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