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The Peacemaker is a 1997 American political action thriller film starring George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Marcel Iureș and Aleksandr Baluev and directed by Mimi Leder. It is the first film by DreamWorks Pictures. While the story takes place all over the world, it was shot primarily in Slovakia with some sequences filmed in New York City and Philadelphia.The basis for the film was the 1997 book One Point Safe by Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn, about the state of Russia's nuclear arsenal. Plot Outside a church celebrating an Eastern Orthodox baptism in Pale, Bosnia, the Bosnian Finance Minister, a moderate pushing for peace in the ongoing Yugoslav Wars, is murdered. At a missile base in Kartaly (Chelyabinsk Oblast), Russia, ten nuclear warheads that belong to a SS-18 Satan ICBM are loaded onto a train for transport to a dismantling facility. However, Russian Army General Aleksandr Kodoroff, along with a rogue Spetznaz unit, kills the soldiers on board and transfers nine warheads to another train. Kodoroff then activates the timer on the remaining warhead and sends the transport on a collision course with a passenger train. The 500-kiloton warhead eventually detonates, killing thousands of civilians and delaying an investigation of the accident. The detonation attracts the attention of the US government. Dr. Julia Kelly, head of the NSC Nuclear Smuggling Group, believes that Chechen terrorists are behind the incident. Former US Army Ranger and Special Forces turned Military Intelligence Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Devoe interrupts her briefing to suggest that the incident was staged to hide the hijacking of the warheads. A call to Devoe's friend and Russian counterpart, FSB Colonel Dimitri Vertikoff, adds reliability to his theory, and he is assigned as Kelly's military liaison. Kelly and Devoe secure information about the terrorists' hijacking operation through an Austrian trucking company that works as a front for the Russian Mafia. They meet Vertikoff in Vienna and assume identities to visit Shummaker, who organizes the Russian's trucking. After Devoe tortures Shummaker for information, he and Kelly leave the building and get in Vertikoff's car. They are chased by Shumaker's men, who kill Vertikoff while he is offering a bribe. Devoe shoots at the attackers and drives away, but finds he and Kelly are being followed. Another chase ensues, followed by a crash, but Devoe and Kelly escape. Information from the trucking company says that the nukes are going to Iran via Azerbaijan. When US spy satellites place the truck in a traffic jam of refugees in Dagestan, Devoe uses a ruse to identify it. This information is passed on to Russian authorities in hopes of stopping the transfer to Iran. The Russian military stops Kodoroff at a roadblock, but he and his men kill the soldiers. Devoe leads an airborne Special Operations team from a U.S. base in Turkey to stop them. Denied entry into Russian airspace, one of the three Special Ops helicopters is shot down by a Russian missile, but the remaining two manage to locate Kodoroff's truck. Firing missiles which disable Kodoroff's truck, they then engage in a gunfight, killing Kodoroff and securing the warheads. However, interrogation of the group's surviving member, a U.S.-educated Pakistani nuclear scientist, reveals that one warhead had been sent off with an operative before the truck was intercepted. The information from the trucking company leads IFOR to a Sarajevo address. Inside is a video cassette of Dušan Gavrić, a Bosnian who disclaims allegiance to any particular faction in the Yugoslav Wars, but blames other countries for supplying weapons to all sides in the conflict. Kelly's further analysis of the trucking company documents suggests that Gavrić intends to bomb a meeting at the UN headquarters in NYC. Gavrić arrives in Manhattan with the Bosnian diplomatic delegation, having replaced the murdered Finance Minister. Gavrić actually wants to avenge the death of his wife and daughter, who died in Sarajevo during a sniper attack. He and his brother are later found by Devoe and Kelly. When his brother is killed by Devoe, a wounded and enraged Gavrić flees into a parochial school. Devoe and Kelly confront Gavrić, who commits suicide, knowing that the bomb is set to go off in minutes. With only seconds to spare, Dr. Kelly manages to remove part of the bomb's explosive lens shell and stop the primary explosion from establishing critical mass within the plutonium core. The primary explosives detonate, wrecking the church, as Devoe and Kelly dive out of a window. However, Kelly's efforts prevent it from causing a nuclear explosion. Kelly later is seen swimming laps in a pool. Devoe stops by and asks her out for a drink, which she accepts. Cast Production The Peacemaker is inspired by an unpublished Vanity Fair article written by journalists Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Redlich Cockburn. The film marked the inaugural release from DreamWorks Pictures George Clooney had initially been set to do a Green Hornet movie at Universal Pictures starring alongside Jason Scott Lee with Sam Raimi directing, but as DreamWorks' co-founder Steven Spielberg's other company Amblin Television produced ER, Clooney opted to sign on for The Peacemaker.In retrospect, Director Mimi Leder said: “I wish they would make more movies like that," she admits wistfully. "And I would make them, because that's what I'm interested in! It was a very exciting experience to be able to keep The Peacemaker grounded in the real world. We actually shot the New York chase sequences first, and we were working at such a high level. We were like, 'Is it too big?' But you can't be too big in a chase where you're trying to save the world from a nuke!" Release Box office The Peacemaker earned $41,263,140 in the US and $69,200,000 elsewhere, bringing its total to $110,463,140. Critical reception On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 46% of 37 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 43 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.Janet Maslin of The New York Times gave praise to Clooney and Kidman for portraying a "charming rogue" and expressing "womanly professionalism as fierce, hostile sterneness" in their respective roles and Leder's direction of the movie's action setpieces, highlighting the Manhattan climax for having "crisp economy and furious energy" throughout the scene. Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle said that despite the "ever-present plot holes and isoscelean character arcs" throughout the film's story and villains, he praised Leder's directorial skills for keeping things fresh throughout the runtime and adding "clever swagger" to the action scenes, concluding that: "By no means an embarrassment to the fledgling Dre.... Discover the Julia Kelly popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Julia Kelly books.

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    Milly Johnson

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    Together, Again

    Milly Johnson

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    The Perfectly Imperfect Woman

    Milly Johnson

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    Katie Flynn

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    Under the Pear Tree

    Julia Kelly

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    The Mother of All Christmases

    Milly Johnson

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    Sarah Goldman

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    Sunshine Over Wildflower Cottage

    Milly Johnson

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    Milly Johnson

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    Du oder der Rest der Welt

    Simone Elkeles

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    My One True North

    Milly Johnson

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    The Birds and the Bees

    Milly Johnson

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    The Room on Rue Amelie

    Kristin Harmel

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    A Spring Affair

    Milly Johnson

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    The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

    Ellen Marie Wiseman

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    A Winter Flame

    Milly Johnson

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    The Queen of Wishful Thinking

    Milly Johnson

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    The Teashop on the Corner

    Milly Johnson

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    An Autumn Crush

    Milly Johnson

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    The Book of Lost Names

    Kristin Harmel

    “A fascinating, heartrending pageturner that, like the reallife forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of ...

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    When the Summer Was Ours

    Roxanne Veletzos

    “This compulsively readable tale of loss and love during and after the Second World War is a masterpiece.” Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author “A gorgeously written, ...

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    Jane Johnson

    A broken family, a house of secretsan entrancing tale of love and courage set during the Second World War.After Rebecca’s mother dies, she must sort through her empty flat and come...

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    One Week in December

    Julia Kelly, Alexis Anne, Audra North & Alexandra Haughton

    Follow four couples as they find, strengthen, or renew love during the holiday season. This collection of four short stories will light up the dark nights of winter! Marrying Owen ...

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    The Wedding Veil

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

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    A Light Beyond the Trenches

    Alan Hlad

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    Jane Johnson

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    Patricia Scanlan

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    Milly Johnson

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    Du oder das ganze Leben

    Simone Elkeles

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    The Forest of Vanishing Stars

    Kristin Harmel

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    Milly Johnson

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    Toutes les lueurs de Londres

    Julia Kelly, Agnès Jaubert, Laywan Kwan & Chin-Yee Lai

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    Changing the Play

    Julia Blake

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    Debutantes

    Charlotte Bingham

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    Tides of Honour

    Genevieve Graham

    From bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a novel of love, loss, and honour amidst the horrors of war and its aftermath.In the summer of 1916, Private Daniel Baker marches int...

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    Tell Me No Secrets

    Julie Corbin

    You can bury the past but it never dies. 'This book will creep under your skin and have you thinking about it in the small hours. You won't want to put it down.' SunAn unputdownabl...

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    The Yorkshire Pudding Club

    Milly Johnson

    From the Sunday Times bestseller comes a heartwarming and uplifting story of how three women find themselves empowered by unexpected pregnancies'Every time you discover a...

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    Come from Away

    Genevieve Graham

    From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War.In the fall of 1939...