A SPIELBERG MASTERPIECE

BRIDGE OF SPIES, 2015, screenplay by Matt Charman and the Coen brothers.   A suspenseful true story with excellent characterization and dialogue.

During the Cold War, American lawyer James Donovan, played by Tom Hanks, is recruited to defend arrested Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, played by Mark Rylance, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers, played by Austin Stowell.