- HD 1080
- Runtime: 112m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: Canada
- Director: Charles Jarrott
- Stars: John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill, Nicholas Campbell
- keywords: assassin, central intelligence agency (cia), murdered wife
- Production_studio: Balkan Productions, Tiberius Film Productions
- Slogan: In a world of professional assassins, there is no room for an amateur.
- The The Amateur is featured in the top rankings of 1981
- #43 in Top Action Movies of 1981
- #31 in Top Crime Movies of 1981
- #52 in Top Thriller Movies of 1981
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.