Little Nikita

(1988)

★ 6.1 IMDb · 121 votes

Genres: Drama, Action, Thriller

Year: 1988

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Richard Benjamin

Cast: Сидни Пуатье, Ривер Феникс, Ричард Дженкинс, Caroline Kava, Ричард Брэдфорд, Richard Lynch, Лоретта Дивайн, Lucy Deakins, Джерри Хардин, Albert Fortell

Plot

An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.

Roy Parmenter is a veteran FBI agent who has spent the last 20 years trying to find the Russian agent who killed his partner whom he calls Scuba. When a couple of deep cover Russian agents are killed Parmenter thinks Scuba is the one doing it. The Russians who have received word from Scuba that if they want him to stop, they have to pay him. So they send a veteran Russian agent, Karpov to stop him. Parmenter was tasked with performing background checks on people applying for certain things requiring security clearance and when he comes across Jeffrey Grant who's applying to the Air Force Academy, he discovers that his parents' info is false. He also learns of Karpov coming into the country and suspects that he is here to stop Scuba and that Karpov went to the city where Jeffrey and his family live, so he decides to keep an eye on Jeffrey and his family.