Little Nikita

Little Nikita is a 1988 American drama film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Sidney Poitier and River Phoenix. It is a film about a family of soviet spies living in America.

Quotes

 * Jeff: Spy on my parents? You got to be kidding me! You want me to help you put them away? Never!


 * Jeff: Look, Mr. FBI man, if you're so sure and if you're so right, why don't you just arrest them?
 * Roy: Well, because... they haven't done anything yet.
 * Jeff: You manipulation son of a bitch!


 * Jeff: Don't give me that crap! You're out of yourself! The big caller, the major bust, the two-bit g-man, well shove it up your ass! You're not my father. You're not even my friend.


 * Jeff: What's my name? Come on, Dad. What could the head of the grandfamily have to hide from his first and oldest and only son?
 * Richard: [pause] Nika.
 * Jeff: Nicholas Grant. Nick.
 * Richard: [shakes head] Nikita.


 * Konstantin: The time has come.
 * Richard: I told you, we're not ready.
 * Konstantin: You had 20 years to get ready.


 * Jeff: Shove this up your bladder, Boris.


 * Konstantin: You know, Roy? Russians don't shoot their children.

Cast

 * Sidney Poitier - Roy Parmenter
 * River Phoenix - Jeff Grant / Nikita
 * Richard Jenkins - Richard Grant / Mikhail
 * Caroline Kava - Elizabeth Grant / Elisabeth
 * Richard Bradford - Konstantin Karpov
 * Richard Lynch - Scuba
 * Loretta Devine - Verna McLaughlin
 * Lucy Deakins - Barbara Kerry
 * Jerry Hardin - Brewer
 * Albert Fortell - Bunin
 * Robert Madrid - Sgt. Leathers