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Fair Game (1995 film)

1995 American film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Fair Game is a 1995 American action thriller film directed by Andrew Sipes from the screenplay by Charlie Fletcher. It stars William Baldwin, Cindy Crawford, Steven Berkoff and Christopher McDonald and follows the police detective Kirkpatrick who must protect lawyer Kate McQuean when she is targeted for murder by ex-members of the KGB with interests in a ship owned by a Cuban man who may lose it in a divorce case being pursued by McQuean. Fair Game is based on Paula Gosling's 1974 novel A Running Duck, which was previously adapted into the 1986 film Cobra.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Fair Game (1995 film)” is 1995 American film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fair, Game and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1974, 1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Fair, Game and film is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1995, 1974 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fair Game (1995 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.