In Patriot Games, Harrison Ford plays former CIA agent Jack Ryan, taking over from Alec Baldwin, who had played author Tom Clancy's brainy protagonist in Hunt for Red October. This time around, Ryan foils an attempted assassination, thereby incurring the wrath of a maniacal Irish radical (Sean Bean). After seemingly neutralizing the villains, and deciding to celebrate the occasion with his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch), everything appears to be back to normal; then all hell breaks loose. Author Tom Clancy himself bemoaned the liberties taken with his novel in the final sequences; the picture scored with audiences, however, and soon inspired a followup, A Clear and Present Danger (1994), also starring Ford. Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- Category Action Thriller, Political Thriller
- Theme: Criminal's Revenge, Woman In Jeopardy, Terrorism
- Studio: Paramount
- Run Time: 01 hr 56 min
- Language: French, English
- Subtitle Language: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
- Format: Blu-ray
- Release Date: July 29, 2008
- Lead Actor: Patrick Bergin, Anne Archer, Harrison Ford, Thora Birch, Sean Bean
- Supporting Actor: Jonathan Ryan, John La Fayette, Jesse D. Goins, Ivan Kane, Gerald Sim, Duke Moosekian, Andrew Connolly, Lester T. Tillery, Oliver Stone, Pamela Saxon, Rebecca Mayhook, Ruben Garfias, Stephen Held, Bob Gunton, Bonnie Webster, Branda Lynn Klemme, Roger Blake, Berlinda Tolbert, Michael Ryan Way, Michael Francis Kelly, Keith Campbell, Karl Hayden, John Shepard, Fritz Sperberg, Franklin Dam, Ellen Geer, Theodore Raimi, Hugh Fraser, Alex Norton, Richard Harris, James Earl Jones, J.E. Freeman, Polly Walker, Samuel L. Jackson, James Fox, Tim Dutton, P.H. Moriarty, Leah Tabassi, Kim Delgado, Hugh Ross, Debora Weston, Claire Oberman, Philip Levien, Allison Barron, David Threlfall, Jeff Mandon, Jeff Gardner, Eric Paul, Gregory Paul Jackson, Fred Toma, Thomas Russell, Pip Torrens, Martin Cochrane, Tom Watt, Alun Armstrong
- Director: Phillip Noyce
