---
title: 'Absolute Power (1997)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Clint Eastwood'
released: '1997-02-04'
runtime_minutes: 121
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/absolute-power-1997'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118548/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Absolute Power (1997)

1997 · 121 min · United States


## Synopsis

Absolute Power is a 1997 American political thriller film produced by, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood as a master jewel thief, Luther Whitney, who witnesses the killing of a woman by Secret Service agents. The screenplay by William Goldman is based on the 1996 novel Absolute Power by David Baldacci. Screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, the film also stars Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott Glenn, Dennis Haysbert, and Richard Jenkins. It was also the last screen appearance of E. G. Marshall. The scenes in the museum were filmed in the Walters Art Museum, where Whitney is copying a painting by El Greco: "Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata".

## Credits

- **Director:** [Clint Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/clint-eastwood)
- **Producer:** [Clint Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/clint-eastwood)
- **Screenplay:** [William Goldman](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-goldman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Lennie Niehaus](https://cinepixo.com/people/lennie-niehaus)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jack N. Green](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-n-green)
- **Editor:** [Joel Cox](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-cox)

## Cast

- [Buddy Van Horn](https://cinepixo.com/people/buddy-van-horn)
- [Judy Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/judy-davis)
- [Kenneth Welsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenneth-welsh)
- [Laura Linney](https://cinepixo.com/people/laura-linney)
- [Ken Walsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-walsh)
- [Alison Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/alison-eastwood)
- [Clint Eastwood](https://cinepixo.com/people/clint-eastwood)
- [Scott Glenn](https://cinepixo.com/people/scott-glenn)
- [Dennis Haysbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/dennis-haysbert)
- [Gene Hackman](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-hackman)
- [Richard Jenkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-jenkins)
- [Mark Margolis](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-margolis)
- [Penny Johnson Jerald](https://cinepixo.com/people/penny-johnson-jerald)
- [Melora Hardin](https://cinepixo.com/people/melora-hardin)
- [E. G. Marshall](https://cinepixo.com/people/e-g-marshall)

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