Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

Matt Damon
as Edward Bell Wilson

Angelina Jolie
as Margaret Ann Russell

Robert De Niro
as Bill Sullivan

Alec Baldwin
as Sam Murach

William Hurt
as Philip Allen

Joe Pesci
as Joseph Palmi

John Turturro
as Raymond Brocco

Billy Crudup
as Archibald Cummings

Tammy Blanchard
as Laura

Michael Gambon
as Dr. Fredericks
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So rather than spend a fortune on special disguises, plastic surgery and prosthetics, the secret of being a successful counter-intelligence agent is loads of Bryclream, a pair of thick-set spectacles and a fawn, knee-length, mac. That's what puts the c into overt! That theory sort works for Matt Dam...