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The recruit, Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment present a Birnbaum/Barber production, a film by Roger Donaldson ; produced by Robert Birnbaum, Jeff Apple, Gary Barber ; written by Roger Towne and Kurt Wimmer and Mitch Glazer ; directed by Roger Donaldson

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MPAA rating: PG-13; for violence, sexuality and language

The recruit

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Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment present a Birnbaum/Barber production, a film by Roger Donaldson ; produced by Robert Birnbaum, Jeff Apple, Gary Barber ; written by Roger Towne and Kurt Wimmer and Mitch Glazer ; directed by Roger Donaldson

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Clayton recently completed his studies at MIT. One evening, Clayton is approached by Walter Burke, a recruiter for the CIA, and believes Clayton is just the sort of man the CIA is looking for. Clayton, who has little interest in an ordinary nine-to-five career and accepts the offer. Clayton has to keep in mind Burke's dictum that "nothing is as it seems," especially when Clayton is given a special assignment -- find the mole within the Agency's training program who is actually feeding information to America's enemies

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