''Hidden Agenda'' is a 2001 Canadian

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written by Les Walton and directed by Marc S. Grenier. It stars

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as Jason Price, who is a former government agent who now earns money helping people disappear through a program he engineered. When his childhood friend Sonny (

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) and mobster Paul Elkert (

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) both come to Price for help, things begin to go awry. Someone has infiltrated Price's network, and his clients begin turning up dead. He is helped in his investigation by the mobster's assistant, Renee Brooks (

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) -- but no one is who they seem to be.

Plot

Jason Price, a former NSA agent, operates the Daedalus network, which gives clients new identities and makes them disappear. As he lavishes a key witness against a lot of money and is hounded by a hitman (called the Cleaner), he not only sucks the FBI's anger, but also the crime syndicate Icarus, who also turns the Cleaner on his best friend, the FBI agent Sonny begin. When Price also lets him submerge and shortly thereafter finds out Sonny's corpse, he realizes that the network has been infiltrated. Price follows the bloody trail of the Cleaner, which leads him not only to the true identity of the Cleaner, but also to its backers.

Cast

as Agent Jason Price *

as Renee Brooks *Brigitte Paquette as Connie Glenn *

as Agent Sonny Mathis *

as Paul Elkert *Alan Fawcett as Sam Turgenson * Francis X. McCarthy as Deputy Director Powell *

Harry Standjofski Harry Standjofski (born May 22, 1959) is a Canadian actor as well as a theater director and playwright. He has appeared in films such as ''Guy X'', '' The Aviator'', '' Protection'', '' X-Men: Days of Future Past'' and '' Hidden Agenda'' and has ...

as Kevin *Christian Paul as Charlie Radisson *Andreas Apergis as Boris Yoesky *Jeff Hall as Vincent Moretti *

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as Agent McCoomb *

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as Prosecutor *Alan Legros as Jerry *Jay Levalley as Paolo Bucci

References

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* * 2001 films English-language Canadian films 2001 action thriller films Techno-thriller films Canadian action thriller films 2000s English-language films 2000s Canadian films {{action-thriller-film-stub