MOVIE OF THE WEEK (3/19/21) THE COURIER
"This seems strange ... There's no caped superheroes here to back me up ... And I have a mustache!" Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) in a scene from Dominic Cooke's based on a true story Cold War drama THE COURIER . Credit: Liam Daniel © Lionsgate and 2020 Roadside Attractions. All rights reserved. WATCH THE TRAILER(S) HERE: DIRECTOR: Dominic Cooke KEY CAST MEMBERS: Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Angus Wright, Jessie Buckley, Petr Klimes and Kirill Pirogov WEB SITE: https://www.thecouriermovie.com/ THE BACK STORY: Greville Wynn (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a simple businessman, nothing more, nothing less. Then his life is turned upside down when a MI-6 agent (Angus Wright) and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan) approach him with a request: Get information from would-be Russian defector Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) about the Soviet supply of nuclear weapons to help prevent a third world war at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
