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Little Nikita is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Benjamin released in USA on 17 march 1988 with Sidney Poitier
Little Nikita (1988)
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Add to a movie listLittle Nikita is a 1988 American cult drama film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier. The film marks the first collaboration between Phoenix and Poitier (the second being Sneakers in 1992).
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Jeffrey Nicolas Grant (River Phoenix), a brash hyperactive high school student lives in a San Diego suburb with his parents, who own a successful garden centre. Keen to fly, he has applied for entry to the Air Force Academy.Actors
Sidney Poitier
(Roy Parmenter)
River Phoenix
(Jeff Grant)
Richard Jenkins
(Richard Grant)
Richard Bradford
(Konstantin Karpov)
Jacob Vargas
(Miguel)
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