When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.

Harrison Ford
as Jack Ryan

Anne Archer
as Dr. Caroline "Cathy" Ryan

Thora Birch
as Sally Ryan

Sean Bean
as Sean Miller

Patrick Bergin
as Kevin O'Donnell

Polly Walker
as Annette

James Fox
as Lord William Holmes

Samuel L. Jackson
as Lt. Cmdr. Robby Jackson

James Earl Jones
as Adm. James Greer

Richard Harris
as Paddy O'Neil
John Chard
Good guys are real good, and the bad guys are real bad. Patriot Games is a more than serviceable thriller, perhaps a bit out of date when viewing it now, but still a very effective good against evil piece. The source material is so dense and intricate it was always going to be hard to conde...
CinemaSerf
Clearly Alec Baldwin was too exhausted after his submarine adventure in 1990, so Harrison Ford picked up the mantle of "Jack Ryan" - now a former CIA operative who is on the UK on holiday with his family. Hardly have the titles ended before he is embroiled in an IRA attempt to kidnap "Lord Holmes" (...