The Jackal is a movie directed by Michael Caton-Jones in 1997 and based on the book The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, first published in 1971. The movie features Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Leslie Phillips, J.K. Simmons, and others.
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Storyline
A joint operation between the FBI and the MVD leads to the death of the younger brother of an Azerbaijani mobster. This, coupled with documents recovered from his briefcase, leads the FBI and MVD to assume the target for the retaliatory hit is FBI Director Donald Brown.
Movie vs Book
Year
1997
Minutes
124
Movie Rate
6.40
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Jackal
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Country: USA
Year: 1997
Length: 2h4m
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Year
1971
Pages
572
Book Rate
8.30
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Book
The Day of the Jackal
Author: Frederick Forsyth
Country: UK
First published in: 1971
Length: 572 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Fred Zinnemann
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“Making the book into a television show makes it feel so much more real and so much more like a real rock documentary.”
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