

The Sum of All Fears
27,000 nuclear weapons. One is missing.
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $68M
- Box office
- $193.9M
- Language
- Arabic
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- usa president
- based on novel or book
- atomic bomb
- spy
- cold war
- intelligence
- chechnya
- intelligence agency
- nuclear explosion
- terrorism
- jack ryan
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Canada, Germany, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremierePG-1329 May 2002
- TheatricalPG-1331 May 2002
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1216 Aug 2002
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM22 Aug 2002
CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A31 May 2002
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical20 Jun 2002
AustriaAT
- Theatrical9 Aug 2002
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1624 Jul 2002
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1214 Jun 2002
BulgariaBG
- Theatrical6 Sept 2002
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical28 Jun 2002
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+29 Aug 2002
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical11 Oct 2002
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The Sum of All Fears was released on 31 May 2002.
Audience reviews
4- J8/10
John Chard
3/16/2019
Let's see. Who else has 27,000 nukes for us to worry about? The Sum of All Fears is directed by Phil Alden Robinson and adapted to screenplay by Paul Attanasio and Daniel Pyne from the novel of the same name written by Tom Clancy. It stars Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Ciaran Hinds, Liev Schreiber, Bridget Moynahan and Michael Byrne. Music is scored by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by John Li…
- W8/10
Wuchak
6/21/2020
_**The sum of all OUR fears**_ A nuke falls into the hands of a neo-fascist madman who wants to pit America against Russia. Then the unthinkable happens. Based on the Tom Clancy novel, "The Sum of All Fears" (2002) features Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst-turned-operative; Morgan Freeman plays his boss; and James Cromwell is on hand as the president. There are several other notables; even the hulking S…
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sooner1ksn
11/25/2021
As a movie, it is OK, actually one of Afflec's better efforts. However, apparently the writer of the screenplay read a different book than I did, because "The Sum Of All Fears", the movie, had about 3 things in common with the book: The name, the main characters, and the fact that it involved nuclear weapons. Why change from Denver to Baltimore? The relationships between Ryan and most of the other characters is sc…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
2/11/2024
For once, Morgan Freeman isn't playing the US President in this rather run of the mill, political apocalypse film. He's actually the CIA director "Cabot" who is working with an analyst "Jack Ryan" (Ben Affleck) to try and thwart a cunning plan to detonate a recently stolen nuclear explosive in the United States so he can start an all out war with Russia. The fascists behind the scheme know full well that any such dis…
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