The Osterman Weekend

John Tanner hosts a television news show devoted to exposing the secrets of public figures. A CIA agent, Lawrence Fassett, approaches him with a claim that shakes his personal life: the friends Tanner regularly spends a country weekend with, among them Bernard Osterman, Richard Tremayne and Joseph Cardone, are suspected of working for Soviet intelligence as part of a network called Omega. Tanner is pressed into cooperating with an operation aimed at the group, and the gathering that gives the film its title turns into a test of loyalty and suspicion rather than a holiday. Ali Tanner, his wife, is among those drawn into the unfolding events.

Sam Peckinpah directed the film, the twelfth in the chronological list of his features and the one that followed Convoy. Alan Sharp wrote the screenplay, adapted from Robert Ludlum's novel, and Peter S. Davis and William N. Panzer produced. Rutger Hauer plays John Tanner, with John Hurt as Fassett and Meg Foster as Ali. Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Hopper and Chris Sarandon appear as the three friends under scrutiny, in a credited cast of thirty-six.

Released in October 1983, the film took about six million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 5.8 out of 10 from roughly ten thousand votes, and on TMDB 5.6 from over two hundred. A critics' rating of 5.8 from twenty reviews places professional and audience assessments at a similar level.