Avenger
No peace without justice...
2006 · 92 min · ★ 6.0 · TV Movie, Action, Thriller
After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard 'Ricky' Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds. Ricky for a private Canadian war victims charity in Bosnia and went missing. Dexter discovers Ricky was beaten to pulp and drowned for no other crime then helping street boys from the other side by Zoran Zilic and his Serbian paramilitary 'order'. He offers Steven to 'finish the job' as such war criminals don't go to trial. But deputy CIA director Paul Devereaux cares only for a nuclear arms project he wants to use Zilic for. So CIA troubleshooter Frank McBride is ordered to protect him and handle Dexter.
Directed by Robert Markowitz
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Timothy Hutton Frank McBride -
James Cromwell Paul Devereaux -
William Hope Stephen Edmonds -
David Hayman Zoran Zilic -
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Lucy Russell Curtis -
Jacqueline Chan Madame Huong (as Jacqui Chan) -
Antonio David Lyons Washington Lee
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