
As the investigation continues, the president orders his top aides to organize a secret paramilitary assault in Colombia on the drug lord, without congressional permission or knowledge. He learns the friend was laundering drug money for the Colombian cartel but took too much off the top, a swindle that led to his demise. In CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER, deputy CIA director Jack Ryan ( Harrison Ford) is asked to investigate who murdered a close friend of the president (Donald Moffat). Language includes "f-k," "s-t," and "ass." A motorcade of officials is attacked by snipers. Bodies mount up in the wake of shootings and explosions. government officials casually accept the deaths of innocent children as "collateral damage." Soldiers and cartel mercenaries shoot people and fire missiles at cars and vans. They engage with clandestine American soldiers in gunfire and missile warfare. Drug processing factories are shown, and lots of armed cartel henchmen shoot at each other. president to garner good PR all play roles in a deception that only one honest man, CIA deputy director Jack Ryan, can fix.


The war on drugs, the billion-dollar drug industry, its murderous cartels, and a secret, illegal military plot hatched by a U.S. Parents need to know that Clear and Present Danger, a 1994 film based on novelist Tom Clancy's 1989 CIA thriller, is a cynical look at U.S. The Colombia drug cartel members make millions processing, smuggling, and selling heroin and cocaine.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.
