The Amateur
Is a thriller espionage movie helmed by director James Hawes, released on April 11, 2025. The film is based on the 1981 book of the same title, with the script penned by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli.
Here\’s the official synopsis:
After his wife is murdered in a London terrorist assault, a codebreaker decides to act independently when his superiors at the CIA decline to intervene.
We\’ll present the film\’s soundtrack along with all the songs used across various scenes to elicit differing emotions. Let’s get started!
The full playlist from The Amateur Soundtrack
The music of
The Amateur
is created by Volker Bertelmann. In addition to the soundtrack, the movie includes various songs that are selected based on the mood of each scene. Here is a list of those songs:
- In the Sky
- Finnish Waters
- CCTV Footage
- Decryption
- Spying on a CIA Agent Constitutes Treason
- Heller’s Waltz
- Training & Searching
- Stalking Gretchen
- Henderson Is On His Way To You
- Those Operations Were Illegal
- The Amateur Opening
- Nadezhda
- Where to Locate Horst Schiller
- Mourning
- Too Large of an Odor Problem
- Club Chase
- Backdoor Exit
- Enjoy That Pasta
- What’s Wrong
- Missing Sarah
- To Turkey
- Ouvrez La Porte
More about The Amateur
The Amateur
is produced by Rami Malek, Hutch Parker, Dan Wilson, and Joel B. Michaels. It was released by 20th Century Studios on April 11, 2025.
Here is a list of its
cast members
:
- Rami Malek portrays Charles Heller, also known as Charlie.
- Rachel Brosnahan portrays Sarah Heller.
- Laurence Fishburne portrays Robert Henderson, also known as Hendo.
- Caitríona Balfe as Inquiline/Davies
- Holt McCallany portrays CIA Deputy Director Alex Moore.
- Michael Stuhlbarg portraying Horst Schiller
- Julianne Nicholson portrays CIA Director Samantha O\’Brien.
- Danny Sapani portrays Caleb Horowitz.
- Adrian Martinez as Carlos
- Jon Bernthal portraying Jackson O\’Brien/The Bear
- Adrian Martinez as Carlos
- Barbara Probst portrays Gretchen Frank.
- Marc Rissmann portraying Mishka Blazhic
- Henry Garrett as the Head of Staff
- Joseph Millson as Ellish
- Alice Hewkin portrayed Ali Parkersen
- Takehiro Hira as Professor
Director James Hawes gave an interview to Collider where he answered why he wanted to tell this story. He said,
\”It was the sort of film I\’d like to go and see. I love the genre, as you will gather. But also, there is a rare combination here, or at least rare more recently, where you get all the thrills and spills, and scope of the espionage genre, and an international adventure, but you have a very clear character arc at the middle of it all and at the heart of it all. So there was something to do with character in those tense, intense settings that felt like it had promise, like it had possibility.\”
He also spoke about maintaining the pace of the film by making it engaging but not very fast.
\”One of the most important things a director can do is to respond to the material as they shoot it, as the actors breathe life into it in front of you. To feel what the scene-to-scene rhythm and the music of the whole is going to be, and we did that in this. So I felt there were moments where I wanted to spend more time with Charlie Heller in his grief.\”
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